Emigrants Tove Jansson and Lars --People (A Book of the

--People (A Book of the Week Pick)

translated by the acclaimed Anton Hur

and the blooming sickness that is spreading through all living things

the vitality and the divine mystery of sex have nourishing properties in and of themselves

Emigrants Tove Jansson and Lars --People (A Book of theThe four long narratives in W. G. Sebald's The Emigrants at first appear to be the straightforward biographies of four people in exile: a painter, an elderly Russian, the author's schoolteacher as well as his eccentric great uncle Ambrose. Following (literally) in their footsteps, the narrator retraces routes which lead from Lithuania to London, from Munich to Manchester, from the South German provinces to Switzerland, France, New York,