A masterwork of W. G. Sebald, now with a gorgeous new cover by the famed
designer Peter Mendelsund
Vertigois the marvelous first novel by W.G. Sebald: "The most exciting, and most
mysteriously sublime, of contemporary European writers" (James Wood,The New
Republic). An unnamed narrator, beset by nervous ailments, journeys across
Europe to Vienna, Venice, Verona, Riva, and finally to his childhood home in a
small Bavarian village. He is also journeying into the past. Traveling in the
footsteps of Stendhal, Casanova, and Kafka, the narrator draws the reader line
by line into a dizzying web of history, biography, autobiography, legends,
literature, and?most perilously?memories.