A Place in the Country
  • Published: 28 May 2014
  • ISBN: 9780141037011
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $29.99

A Place in the Country

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Fusing biography and essay, A Place in the Country is a window into the brilliant mind of W. G. Sebald

When W. G. Sebald travelled to Manchester in 1966, he packed in his bags certain literary favourites which would remain central to him throughout the rest of his life and during the years when he was settled in England. In A Place in the Country, he reflects on six of the figures who shaped him as a person and as a writer, from Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Jan Peter Tripp.

Fusing biography and essay, and finding, as ever, inspiration in place - as when he journeys to the Ile St. Pierre, the tiny, lonely Swiss island where Jean-Jacques Rousseau found solace and inspiration - Sebald lovingly brings his subjects to life in his distinctive, inimitable voice.

A Place in the Country is a window into the mind of this much loved and much missed writer.
  • Published: 28 May 2014
  • ISBN: 9780141037011
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $29.99
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Praise for A Place in the Country

A fascinating volume that confirms Sebald as one of Europe's most mysterious and best-loved literary imaginations

Evening Standard

Sebald was in possession of the uncanny ability to make his own intellectual obsessions, immediately, compulsively his reader's

Observer

Shows a writer at his most inquisitive, gazing deeply under the surface of things

Financial Times

Irresistible . . . an intimate anatomy of the pathos, absurdity and perverse splendour of trying to find patterns in the chaos of the world

Independent

Erudite, truthful, moving

The Times

A beautiful book . . . about the crazy quest for meaning, and how we persist with it despite the shadows that slide towards us

Joanna Kavenna, Spectator
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