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A devastating novel about memory space, alienation, and trauma from acclaimed novelist W. G. Sebald. The four long narratives in The Emigrants show up at first to be the logical biographies of four Germans in exile. Sebald reconstructs the lives of the painter, a health care provider, an elementary-school tutor, and Great Uncle Ambrose. Following (virtually) in their footsteps, the narrator retraces routes of exile which lead from Lithuania to London, from Munich to Manchester, from the South German provinces to Switzerland, France, New York, Constantinople, and Jerusalem. Along with thoughts, documents, and diaries of the Holocaust, he collects images - the enigmatic snapshots which stud The Emigrants and bring to mind family photo albums. Sebald combines precise documentary with fictional motifs, so that as he sets the question to realism, the four stories combine into one unfathomable requiem.
