- Published: 3 January 2003
- ISBN: 9780099448884
- Imprint: Vintage Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 256
- RRP: $22.99
The Emigrants
- Published: 3 January 2003
- ISBN: 9780099448884
- Imprint: Vintage Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 256
- RRP: $22.99
Strange, beautiful and terribly moving
A.S. Byatt
This deeply moving book shames most writers with its nerve and tact and wonder
Michael Ondaatje
An unconsoling masterpiece...It is exquisitely written and exquisitely translated...a true work of art
Spectator
A spellbinding account of four Jewish exiles. Its restrained and meditative tone has stayed with me all year
Nicholas Shakespeare
A sober delicate account of displacement, and a classic of its kind. Modest and remote, it resurrects older standards of behaviour, making most contemporary writing seem brash and immature. No book has pleased me more this year
Anita Brookner, Spectator
It's like nothing I've ever read...A book of excruciating sobriety and warmth and a magical concreteness of observation...I know of no book which conveys more about that complex fate, being a European at the end of European civilization. I know of few books written in our time but this one which attains the sublime
Susan Sontag, Times Literary Supplement
The writing seems long distilled, intensely pre-mediated and yet utterly fresh. It has an unaffected earnestness, a loner's earnestness
Karl Miller, Times Literary Supplement
One of the most innovative writers of the late 20th century... It's as if the spirit of ruined Europe were speaking through him
Geoff Dyer, Guardian
The writer who above all others transformed the ravaged lands and minds of post-war Europe into a scene of hauntings
Independent