'Sebald is the Joyce of the 21st Century' The Times

What begins as the record of W. G. Sebald's own journey on foot through coastal East Anglia, from Lowestoft to Bungay, becomes the conductor of evocations of people and cultures past and present. From Chateaubriand, Thomas Browne, Swinburne and Conrad, to fishing fleets, skulls and silkworms, the result is an intricately patterned and haunting book on the transience of all things human.

'A novel of ideas with a difference: it is nothing but ideas... Formally dexterous, fearlessly written (why shouldn't an essay be a novel?), and unremittingly arcane; by the end I was in tears' Teju Cole, Guardian

A reissue of W. G. Sebald's masterpiece - The Rings of Saturn - in a glorious new packaged, published to make 25 years since its first publication

About the Author
W. G. Sebald was born in Wertach im Allgau, in the Bavarian Alps, in 1944. He studied German language and literature in Freiburg, Switzerland and Manchester. In 1966 he took up a position as an assistant lecturer at the University of Manchester, settling permanently in England in 1970. He was professor of Modern German Literature at the University of East Anglia, and is the author of The Emigrants which won the Berlin Literature Prize, the Literatur Nord Prize and the Johannes Bobrowski Medal, The Rings of Saturn and Austerlitz. W. G. Sebald died in 2001.

Reviews
This spellbinding book changed for ever my idea of what a memoir could be -- Laura Cumming, author of ON CHAPEL SANDS * Week *



Book Information
ISBN 9781784876753
Author W.G. Sebald
Format Paperback
Page Count 304
Imprint Vintage Classics
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Weight(grams) 263g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 22mm