Austerlitz

Over the course of a thirty-year conversation unfolding in train stations and travelers' stops across England and Europe, an unnamed narrator and Jacques Austerlitz discuss the latter's ongoing efforts to understand who he is. The deployment of black-and-white photographs enhances the ground of this unique and astonishing act of memory. The book "evokes at once the minutiae and the vastness of individual existence." Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award (2002). 298p.