Austerlitz Author:W. G. Sebald Retired architectural historian Jacques Austerlitz tells how he learns the truth of his origins, as a Czech child spirited away from his mother and out of Nazi territory on the Kindertransport. He returns to confront the childhood traumas that haunt him and to find what is left of his past. — W.G. Sebald traces the moving story of Jacques Austerl... more »itz, sent to Wales on the last Kindertransport from Europe on the eve of World War II. He is adopted by Welsh Calvinists who decide to remove any trace of his true origins.« less