The Emigrants
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780099448884 (0099448882)
Publish date: May 29th 2002
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 237
Edition language: English
This was such a pleasing read for me. Sebald was a special talent. I am looking forward to reading the two remaining unread titles in his oeuvre that includes Rings of Saturn and Austerlitz.
I'll have to do more research before Thursday, or I'll only complain about the most boring narrator(s)? ever. It's a fairly short book book about people monologuing to each other and/or to the reader endlessly. Wow, just glanced at the other reviews and now I feel bad. But while there was nice descr...
fabulous....
The Emigrants fits perfectly with what I've read of Sebald's oeuvre. Through four biographical portraits, Sebald explores the experiences of people who have left, or been made to leave, their homelands. The narrator describes how the four have come into his life, how he came to hear their stories, o...