Austerlitz - James Wood Pages:448 pages The threat of incarceration will

The threat of incarceration will never be powerful enough to stop men raping

again proving her mastery of historical romance

Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and the decadent partying of the jaded expats in Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises

and dark humour

Austerlitz - James Wood Pages:448 pages The threat of incarceration willAusterlitz is W. G. Sebald's haunting novel of post war Europe. In 1939, five year old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents. This childless couple promptly erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity and he grows up ignorant of his past. Later 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