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The Emigrants
- Narrated by: Mel Foster
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
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Publisher's Summary
A devastating novel about memory, alienation, and trauma from acclaimed novelist W. G. Sebald.
The four long narratives in The Emigrants appear at first to be the straightforward biographies of four Germans in exile. Sebald reconstructs the lives of a painter, a doctor, an elementary-school teacher, and Great Uncle Ambrose. Following (literally) in their footsteps, the narrator retraces routes of exile which lead from Lithuania to London, from Munich to Manchester, from the South German provinces to Switzerland, France, New York, Constantinople, and Jerusalem. Along with memories, documents, and diaries of the Holocaust, he collects photographs - the enigmatic snapshots which stud The Emigrants and bring to mind family photo albums. Sebald combines precise documentary with fictional motifs, and as he puts the question to realism, the four stories merge into one unfathomable requiem.
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- 2021-06-12
The Reading spoils a great novel
Reader starts with NorWITCH instead of NORich -- and then goes downhill. Each word pronounced in isolation from its context, as if for beginning learners of English; the monotone varying only to lay emphasis in misleading ways. Much as I was looking forward to new experience of this wonderful book, I can't go past the first section.
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