Vertigo

A new, modern look for Sebald´s classic trilogy of books - Vertigo, The Emigrants and The Rings of Saturn - 20 years after the tragic death of one of our most pioneering and cherished writers ´Nothing like Vertigo is likely to be encountered in the course of one´s regular reading. One emerges from it shaken, seduced, and deeply impressed´ Anita Brookner, Spectator What could possibly connect Stendhal´s unrequited love, a series of murders by a clandestine organisation, the Great Fire of London, a story by Kafka and a closed-down pizzeria in Verona? Part fiction, part travelogue, the narrator of Sebald´s compelling masterpiece pursues his solitary, eccentric course from England to Italy and beyond, succumbing to the vertiginous unreliability of memory itself. ´As a reader, you find his prose wrapping itself, wraith-like, round your imagination, casting a baffling and indefinable spell. [Sebald] entertains, provokes, stimulates and inspires´ Robert McCrum, Observer