Austerlitz, the last great book of the most original narrator of our time, is the story of a man who, as a child, steals country, language and name, and can no longer feel at home in this world. In the dark ship of Antwerp station was a young, blond man with heavy hiking boots and an old backpack, busy taking notes and drawing pictures in a notebook. The narrator watches him fascinated, and begins a relationship that goes on for decades and increasingly captivates the narrator. Jacques Austerlitz is called the enigmatic stranger and, although he has lived in London for many years, he is not English. In the 1940s, as a Jewish child refugee, he came to Wales and grew up in the house of the parish priest and his wife, elderly and sad. The boy grows lonely and when, after many years, he knows his true origin and his name, he also knows why he feels foreign among men. W. G. Sebald collects in this book the story of a deranged, uprooted being who can not find his home on earth. "Austerlitz is one of the very few great books conceived and composed in the last decades" (Pietro Citati, La Repubblica). «Sebald is the Joyce of the 21st century. His account of the odyssey of a man through the dark years of European history - the synthesis of a canon of Western thought and literature - is one of the most poignant and true works of the world since the postwar period "(The Times). "His most ambitious and intense work" (J. Coetzee). "Sebald showed that literature can be, literally, indispensable. Through it, literature is still alive "(Susan Sontag).