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  • Austerlitz

    by W.G. Sebald ...
    Translated by Anthea Bell ...
    From one of the undisputed masters of world literature, a haunting novel of sublime ambition and power about a man whose fragmentary memories of a lost childhood lead him on a quest across Europe in search of his heritage.Jacques Austerlitz is a survivor – rescued as a child from the Nazi threat. In the summer of 1939 he arrives in Wales to live with a Methodist minister and his wife. As he grows ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • The Rings of Saturn

    by W. G. Sebald ...
    Translated by Michael Hulse ...
    Shortlisted for the 1998 Los Angeles Times Book Award in Fiction: "Stunning and strange . . . Sebald has done what every writer dreams of doing. . . . The book is like a dream you want to last forever. . . . It glows with the radiance and resilience of the human spirit."—Roberta Silman, The New York Times Book Review"Ostensibly a record of a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia," as Robert ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    W.G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn

    by W.G. Sebald ...
    Narrated by Rick Moody, Dinaw Mengestru, Denis O'Hare, Hari Kunzru ...
    Series series Thalia Book Club

    Unabridged

    1 hour 7 min

    Rick Moody (The Ice Storm), Dinaw Mengestu (All Our Names), and Hari Kunzru (Gods Without Men) lead a spirited conversation of Sebald's classic. Denis O'Hare (American Horror Story) will read an excerpt. ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Emigrants

    by W. G. Sebald ...
    Translated by Michael Hulse ...
    "A masterpiece."—Richard Eder, The New York Times.Published to enormous critical acclaim in the US, The Emigrants has been acclaimed as "one of the best novels to appear since World War II" (Review of Contemporary Fiction) and three times chosen as the 1996 International Book of the Year. The poignant and acclaimed novel about the beauty of lost things, while the protagonist traces the lives of ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Campo Santo

    by W. G. Sebald ...
    Translated by Anthea Bell ...
    Campo Santo is a collection of essays by W. G. SebaldWhen W.G. Sebald died tragically in 2001 a unique voice was silenced. Campo Santo is a collection of the pieces he left behind - none of them previously published in book form - which provide a powerful insight into the themes that came to dominate his life.Four pieces pay tribute to Corsica, weaving elegiacally between past and present. Sebald ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Three Book Sebald Set

    The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn, and Vertigo

    by W. G. Sebald ...
    Translated by Michael Hulse ...
    The masterworks of W. G. Sebald, now in gorgeous new covers by the famed designer Peter MendelsundNew Directions is delighted to announce beautiful new editions of these three classic Sebald novels, including his two greatest works, The Emigrants and The Rings of Saturn. All three novels are distinguished by their translations, every line of which Sebald himself made pitch-perfect, slaving to ... Read more

    $53.99 CAD

  • On the Natural History of Destruction

    by W.G. Sebald ...
    Translated by Anthea Bell ...
    W. G. Sebald completed this extraordinary, important and controversial book before his untimely death in December 2001. It is a harrowing study of the devastation of German cities by Allied bombardment in World War II, and an examination of the silence in German literature and culture about this unprecedented trauma. On the Natural History of Destruction is an essential and deeply relevant study ... Read more

    Was $15.99 CAD Now $13.99 CAD

  • The Emergence of Memory

    Conversations with W.G. Sebald

    by W.G. Sebald ...
    When German author W. G. Sebald died in a car accident at the age of fifty-seven, the literary world mourned the loss of a writer whose oeuvre it was just beginning to appreciate. Through published interviews with and essays on Sebald, award-winning translator and author Lynne Sharon Schwartz offers a profound portrait of the writer, who has been praised posthumously for his unflinching ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Vertigo

    by W. G. Sebald ...
    Translated by Michael Hulse ...
    The beguiling first novel by W. G. Sebald, one of the most enormously acclaimed European writers of our time.Vertigo, W. G. Sebald's first novel, never before translated into English, is perhaps his most amazing and certainly his most alarming. Sebald—the acknowledged master of memory's uncanniness—takes the painful pleasures of unknowability to new intensities in Vertigo. Here in their first ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Emigrants, The

    by W.G. Sebald ...
    Narrated by Mel Foster ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 10 min

    A devastating novel about memory, alienation, and trauma from acclaimed novelist W. G. Sebald.The four long narratives in The Emigrants appear at first to be the straightforward biographies of four Germans in exile. Sebald reconstructs the lives of a painter, a doctor, an elementary-school teacher, and Great Uncle Ambrose. Following (literally) in their footsteps, the narrator retraces routes of ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Emigrants, The Ambros Adelwarth

    by W.G. Sebald ...
    Narrated by Eleanor Bron, Henry Bron, John Wood ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 29 min

    Inspired by an old photograph album to investigate the life of a lost relative, a man finds himself on a journey that traverses the 20th century, leading him from an American asylum to the shores of the Dead Sea. Adapted by Edward Kemp from W G Sebald's acclaimed novel about the experiences of Jewish emigrants. Starring John Wood, Henry Goodman, Eleanor Bron, Ed Bishop, Margaret Robertson, Andrew ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Tanners

    by Robert Walser ...
    Translated by Susan Bernofsky ...
    "The Tanners is a contender for Funniest Book of the Year."—The Village VoiceThe Tanners, Robert Walser’s amazing 1907 novel of twenty chapters, is now presented in English for the very first time, by the award-winning translator Susan Bernofsky. Three brothers and a sister comprise the Tanner family—Simon, Kaspar, Klaus, and Hedwig: their wanderings, meetings, separations, quarrels, romances, ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD