A Place in the Country

A fascinating volume that confirms Sebald as one of Europe’s most mysterious and best-loved literary imaginations * Evening Standard *
Sebald was in possession of the uncanny ability to make his own intellectual obsessions, immediately, compulsively his reader’s * Observer *
Shows a writer at his most inquisitive, gazing deeply under the surface of things * Financial Times *
Irresistible … an intimate anatomy of the pathos, absurdity and perverse splendour of trying to find patterns in the chaos of the world * Independent *
Erudite, truthful, moving * The Times *
A beautiful book … about the crazy quest for meaning, and how we persist with it despite the shadows that slide towards us – Joanna Kavenna * Spectator *

W. G. Sebald (Author) W. G. Sebald was born in Wertach im Allg u, Germany, in 1944 and died in December 2001. He studied German language and literature in Freiburg, Switzerland and Manchester. In 1966 he took up a position as an assistant lecturer at the University of Manchester and settled permanently in England in 1970. He was Professor of European Literature at the University of East Anglia and is the author of The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn, Vertigo, Austerlitz, After Nature, On the Natural History of Destruction, Unrecounted, Campo Santo, A Place in the Country and a selection of poetry, Across the Land and the Water.

Jo Catling (Translator) Jo Catling taught German and European literature at the University of East Anglia where she worked closely with W G Sebald from 1993 until his death. Translator of Sebalds A Place in the Country, she is editor (with Richard Hibbitt) of Saturn’s Moons- W G Sebald - A Handbook and has published widely on Sebald and on Rainer Maria Rilke.

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