Speak, Silence av Carole Angier

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<b>A <i>SPECTATOR, </i><i>NEW STATESMAN </i>AND <i>THE TIMES </i>BOOK OF THE YEAR</b><b>¿The best biography I have read in years'' </b><b>Philippe Sands</b><b>¿Spectacular¿ <i>Observer</i></b><b>¿</b><b>A remarkable portrait</b><b>¿</b><b><i>Guardian</i></b>W. G. Sebald was one of the most extraordinary and influential writers of the twentieth century. Through books including <i>The Emigrants</i>, <i>Austerlitz </i>and <i>The Rings of Saturn</i>, he pursued an original literary vision that combined fiction, history, autobiography and photography and addressed some of the most profound themes of contemporary literature: the burden of the Holocaust, memory, loss and exile.The first biography to explore his life and work, <i>Speak, Silence</i> pursues the true Sebald through the memories of those who knew him and through the work he left behind. This quest takes Carole Angier from Sebald¿s birth as a second-generation German at the end of the Second World War, through his rejection of the