W. G. Sebald was born in Germany in 1944 and died in 2001. He is the author of The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn, Vertigo, Austerlitz, After Nature, On the Natural History of Destruction, Unrecounted and Campo Santo. Michael Hulse is an English translator, critic, and poet. Hulse has translated more than sixty books from the German.

"The book is like a dream you want to last  translation from the German seems little short  of miraculous. The book is so natural and  accessible, and yet so odd, that one is left  enchanted and also curious about the author, who presents such a prodigious mass of material in  such a modest and engaging way. As you read  along, and as you become an active participant  in the unfolding of this book."

W. G. Sebald was born in Germany in 1944 and died in 2001. He is the author of The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn, Vertigo, Austerlitz, After Nature, On the Natural History of Destruction, Unrecounted and Campo Santo. Michael Hulse is an English translator, critic, and poet. Hulse has translated more than sixty books from the German.

"The book is like a dream you want to last  translation from the German seems little short  of miraculous. The book is so natural and  accessible, and yet so odd, that one is left  enchanted and also curious about the author, who presents such a prodigious mass of material in  such a modest and engaging way. As you read  along, and as you become an active participant  in the unfolding of this book."

W. G. Sebald was born in Germany in 1944 and died in 2001. He is the author of The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn, Vertigo, Austerlitz, After Nature, On the Natural History of Destruction, Unrecounted and Campo Santo. Michael Hulse is an English translator, critic, and poet. Hulse has translated more than sixty books from the German.

"The book is like a dream you want to last  translation from the German seems little short  of miraculous. The book is so natural and  accessible, and yet so odd, that one is left  enchanted and also curious about the author, who presents such a prodigious mass of material in  such a modest and engaging way. As you read  along, and as you become an active participant  in the unfolding of this book."