Originally published: New York : Random House, c2001.

Includes bibliographical references.

aA man named Jacques Austerlitz relates to a friend the story of his adult life over a period of thirty years, during which time he searches for his identity, recovering childhood memories and learning that he arrived in England on a refugee train in 1939, sent by his Jewish parents, who perished in the war.

"This tenth anniversary edition of W. G. Sebald’s celebrated masterpiece includes a new Introduction by acclaimed critic James Wood. Austerlitz is the story of a man’s search for the answer to his life’s central riddle. A small child when he comes to England on a Kindertransport in the summer of 1939, Jacques Austerlitz is told nothing of his real family by the Welsh Methodist minister and his wife who raise him. When he is a much older man, fleeting memories return to him, and obeying an instinct he only dimly understands, Austerlitz follows their trail back to the world he left behind a half century before. There, faced with the void at the heart of twentieth-century Europe, he struggles to rescue his heritage from oblivion."--,Provided by Amazon.