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The EmigrantsBy W. G. SebaldTranslated by Michael HulseNEW DIRECTIONSCopyright © 1996 The Harvill Press.All rights reserved.ISBN: 0-8112-1338-2CHAPTER ONE At the end of september 1970, shortly before I took up myposition in Norwich, I drove out to Hingham with Clara insearch of somewhere to live. For some 25 kilometres the roadruns amidst fields and hedgerows, beneath spreading oaktrees, past a few scattered hamlets, till at length Hinghamappears, its asymmetrical gables, church tower and treetopsbarely rising above the flatland. The market place, broad andlined with silent facades, was deserted, but still it did not takeus long to find the house the agents had described. One of thelargest in the village, it stood a short distance from the churchwith its grassy graveyard, Scots pines and yews, up a quietside street. The house was hidden behind a two-metre walland a thick shrubbery of hollies and Portuguese laurel. We walkeddown the gentle slope of the broad driveway and across theevenly gravelled forecourt. To the right, beyond the stablesand outbuildings, a stand of beeches rose high into the clearautumn sky, its rookery deserted in the early afternoon, thenests dark patches in
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- Author
- Sebald, Winfried Georg, 1944-
- Publisher
- New Directions Book
- Published
- 1997
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780511213663
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities
- Rating
- 4.17 / 5 (734 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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