The Rings of Saturn

WG Sebald author Michael Hulse translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:5th Nov '20

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A reissue of W. G. Sebald's masterpiece - The Rings of Saturn - in a glorious new packaged, published to make 25 years since its first publication

‘Sebald is the Joyce of the 21st Century’ The Times

What begins as the record of W. G. Sebald’s own journey on foot through coastal East Anglia, from Lowestoft to Bungay, becomes the conductor of evocations of people and cultures past and present. From Chateaubriand, Thomas Browne, Swinburne and Conrad, to fishing fleets, skulls and silkworms, the result is an intricately patterned and haunting book on the transience of all things human.

‘A novel of ideas with a difference: it is nothing but ideas… Formally dexterous, fearlessly written (why shouldn't an essay be a novel?), and unremittingly arcane; by the end I was in tears’ Teju Cole, Guardian

This spellbinding book changed for ever my idea of what a memoir could be -- Laura Cumming, author of ON CHAPEL SANDS * Week *

ISBN: 9781784876753

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 22mm

Weight: 263g

304 pages