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 overwhelming evocation of exile and loss. Written with a bone-dry sense of humour and a fascination with the oddness of existence "The Emigrants"...(展开全部)

Among the greatest and most moving achievements of contemporary German writing"(Rheinischer Merkur), the four long narratives in W. G. Sebald's The Emigrants appear at first sight to be straightforward biographies of four Germans in exile. But Sebald has wrought something altogether new. Illustrated throughout with enigmatic photographs, it is an astonishingly beautiful book --...(展开全部)