This tenth anniver­sary edi­tion of W. G. Sebald’s cel­e­brat­ed mas­ter­piece includes a new Intro­duc­tion by acclaimed crit­ic James Wood. Auster­litz is the sto­ry of a man’s search for the answer to his life’s cen­tral rid­dle. 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.