A SPECTATOR, NEW STATESMAN AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR-The best biography I have read in years'' Philippe Sands-Spectacular- Observer-A remarkable portrait-GuardianW. G. Sebald was one of the most extraordinary and influential writers of the twentieth century. Through books including The Emigrants, Austerlitz and The Rings of Saturn, he pursued an original literary vision that combined fiction, history, autobiography and photography and addressed some of the most profound themes of contemporary literature: the burden of the Holocaust, memory, loss and exile.The first biography to explore his life and work, Speak, Silence pursues the true Sebald through the memories of those who knew him and through the work he left behind. This quest takes Carole Angier from Sebald-s birth as a second-generation German at the end of the Second World War, through his rejection of the
