Austerlitz

"Austerlitz is the story of a man's search for the answer to his life's central riddle. A small child when he comes to England on a Kindertransport in the summer of 1939, Jacques Austerlitz is told nothing of his real family by the Welsh Methodist minister and his wife who raise him. When he is a much older man, fleeting memories return to him, and obeying an instinct he only dimly understands, Austerlitz follows their trail back to the world he left behind a half century before. There, faced with the void at the heart of twentieth-century Europe, he struggles to rescue his heritage from oblivion."--P. [2] of cover.

Set in

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  Prague · Czechia

  Austerlitz's origin: left Prague as a child on the Kindertransport; returns to uncover his Jewish identity
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• Antwerp · Belgium

  Opening: chance encounter at Antwerp Central Station where narrator first meets Jacques Austerlitz