The emigrants
By: W.G. Sebald ; translated by Michael Hulse.
Contributors: Hulse, Michael, 1955-
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
Subjects: Exiles -- Fiction; World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Fiction
Description: The road to exile of four men. One is a teacher, fired by the Nazis from his job for having a Jewish ancestor, then inducted into the German army. Of the others, all Jews, one is a surgeon who commits suicide as he is unable to assimilate into British society, a second is an artist, a third becomes a butler in New York.