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W. G. Sebald follows four Jewish exiles through their post-Holocaust lives in Europe and America. The characters are real people, including the author's great-uncle, but his treatment of them is a blend of fiction and fact, and includes photographs and artifacts of the period.
 
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Date of Review:  Oct 19, 2001
The Bottom Line: It's difficult to tell how much of these narratives are fact, and how much are Sebald's own imagination. But then, that just might be the point.
Review: W.G. Sebald?s The Emigrants is not an easy book, in the sense that these pages tell of deaths and insanity and guilt. The Emigrants is broken into four narratives that get longer and longer with the telling of each. The narratives are ostensibly the...
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Wonderful writing
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Date of Review:  Jan 11, 2000
Review: Exile, whether self-inflicted or politically decreed, has always been an attractive state for a writer; perhaps it is too easily romanticized. With his first novel, 'The Emigrants,' W.G. Sebald (himself a German emigre living in Manchester, England)...
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Authors W. G. Sebald
Fiction Genre History
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  Coe, Jonathan, London Review of Books: "[A] curious, mesmerising book, a hybrid of fiction and memoir which tells the life stories of four unhappy exiles....Short but momentous..."

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  Format: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions (September 01, 1997)
Measurements: 8.5"(h) x 5.5"(w) x 0.75"(d), 0.6 lbs.
ISBN: 9780811213660

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  At the end of September 1970, shortly before I took up my position in Norwich, I drove out to Hingham with Clara in search of somewhere to live. (Translated from the German by Michael Hulse.)
 
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