{"product_id":"austerlitz-sebald-book-club","title":"Austerlitz","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"mso-element: comment-list;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"mso-element: comment;\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;\"\u003eSelected for SFMOMA's inaugural \u003cem\u003eWorks on Paper Book Club\u003c\/em\u003e, June 25, 2026.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eW. G. Sebald’s celebrated masterpiece, “one of the supreme works of art of our time” (\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e), follows a man’s search for the answer to his life’s central riddle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA small child when he comes to England on a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eKindertransport\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOver the course of a thirty-year conversation unfolding in train stations and travelers’ stops across England and Europe, W. G. Sebald’s unnamed narrator and Jacques Austerlitz discuss Austerlitz’s ongoing efforts to understand who he is—a struggle to impose coherence on memory that embodies the universal human search for identity.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePaperback, 320 pages.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e8 x 5.4 in.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47457112588466,"sku":"978-0812982619","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0578\/8155\/9218\/files\/9780812982619_2b6e8.jpg?v=1779226861","url":"https:\/\/museumstore.sfmoma.org\/products\/austerlitz-sebald-book-club","provider":"SFMOMA Museum Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}