W G Sebald: Emigrants W3 [2002] paperback Condition:Very Good German art student Otto Schubert

German art student Otto Schubert was 22 years old when he was drafted into the Great War

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W G Sebald: Emigrants W3 [2002] paperback Condition:Very Good German art student Otto Schubert'A book of excruciating sobriety and warmth and a magical concreteness of observation I know of no book which conveys more about that complex fate, being a European at the end of European civilization' Susan Sontag At first The Emigrants appears simply to document the lives of four Jewish emigres in the twentieth century. But gradually, as Sebald's precise, almost dreamlike prose begins to draw their stories, the four narrations merge into one