September - Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald
Wed, 16 Sept, 6:30pm
New Sydney Hotel · 87 Bathurst Street, Hobart, Hobart
From this event on, our meetings will generally be on the **THIRD Wednesday of the month**. I have too many other events at the end of each month to keep doing the LAST Wednesday as we have been doing. Cheers - Nick One of *The New York Times*’s 10 Best Books of the 21st Century Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Koret Jewish Book Award, *Independent* Foreign Fiction Prize, and *Jewish Quarterly* Wingate Literary Prize A small child when he comes to England on a *Kindertransport* in the summer of 1939, Jacques Austerlitz is told nothing of his real family by the Welsh Methodist minister and his wife who raise him. When he is a much older man, fleeting memories return to him, and obeying an instinct he only dimly understands, Austerlitz follows their trail back to the world he left behind a half century before. There, faced with the void at the heart of twentieth-century Europe, he struggles to rescue his heritage from oblivion. Over the course of a thirty-year conversation unfolding in train stations and travelers’ stops across England and Europe, W. G. Sebald’s unnamed narrator and Jacques Austerlitz discuss Austerlitz’s ongoing efforts to understand who he is—a struggle to impose coherence on memory that embodies the universal human search for identity.
