W. G. Sebald ; translated from the German by Michael Hulse
2002
9780099448884
The emigrants
"First published in Great Britain in 1996 by The Harvill Press" -- T.p.
"First published with the title Die Ausgewanderten by Vito von Eichborn Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1993"
Set book for Open University module A230 Reading and studying literature
The road to exile of four men. One is a teacher, fired by the Nazis from his job for having a Jewish ancestor, then inducted into the German army. Of the others, all Jews, one is a surgeon who commits suicide as he is unable to assimilate into British society, a second is an artist, a third becomes a butler in New York.
The emigrants