3.99 avg rating — 3,159 ratings

"Most of Sebald works if not all, are about memory loss and the experience of the Shoah. This one's an essay."

3.93 avg rating — 1,473 ratings

"A fiction about a young boy, the only son of a couple of Shoah survivors. It's a fiction yet it moved me more than some true stories about the Shoah and ddeply moved it. The concentration camps and Nazi Germany are words that are never spelled out loud in the family, instead the characters call them "the land of Out There" -
Eretz Sham, in Hebrew. Powerful writing. "