Description
A mosaic of four interlinked portraits, this novel follows an unnamed narrator as he retraces the lives of German men in exile—an itinerant doctor, a teacher, a painter, and the narrator’s own Great-Uncle Adelwarth. Moving across a shifting geography of Lithuania, London, Munich, Manchester, Switzerland, France, New York, Constantinople, and Jerusalem, the book follows the routes of displacement with a historian’s patience and a storyteller’s intimacy. Through these semi-biographical journeys, it explores memory, loss, and the uneasy afterlife of migration—how identity is remade by distance, language, and time. W.G. Sebald’s signature style blends lyrical observation with documentary texture, turning biography into a meditation on history’s personal costs.
Available Editions
paperback
New Directions Publishing
Published Jan 1, 1997
262 pages
ISBN: 9780811213660
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Details
First Published
1992
Language
eng
Translation
From: deu
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald.