{"product_id":"austerlitz-penguin-essentials","title":"Austerlitz","description":"\u003cp\u003e'A superb meditation on time, loss and retrieval. A new kind of writing, combining fiction, memoir, travelogue, philosophy and much else besides . . . greatness in literature is still possible' John Banville, \u003cem\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/em\u003e, Books of the Year\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis childless couple promptly erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity and he grows up ignorant of his past.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLater in life, after a career as an architectural historian, Austerlitz - having avoided all clues that might point to his origin - finds the past returning to haunt him and he is forced to explore what happened fifty years before.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W.G. Sebald, Anthea Bell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46675481067689,"sku":"9780241951804","price":9.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9518\/0962\/files\/9780241951804.jpg?v=1765599237","url":"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com.au\/products\/austerlitz-penguin-essentials","provider":"RoseyRavelston Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}