W. G. Sebald was born in Germany in 1944 and died in 2001. He is the author of The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn, Vertigo, Austerlitz, After Nature, On the Natural History of Destruction and Unrecounted.
""A writer whose work [belongs] on the high shelf alongside that of Kafka, Borges and Proust."" -The New York Times Book Review ""Far outdoing even the best of these pieces are three set in Corsica. Perhaps intended as part of a new work of imagination, they compel a startled delight, and they compel painful regret-outrage even-that Sebald is gone and unable to continue."" -Los Angeles Times Book Review ""Brilliant . . . rollicking, sorrowful . . . [a] wonderfully mellifluous translation."" -The Boston Globe