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The Rings of Saturn (Hardcover)
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"Ostensibly a record of a journey on foot through coastal East
Anglia," as Robert McCrum in the London Observer noted, The Rings
of Saturn "is also a brilliantly allusive study of England's
imperial past and the nature of decline and fall, of loss and
decay. . . . The Rings of Saturn is exhilaratingly, you might say
hypnotically, readable. . . . It is hard to imagine a stranger or
more compelling work." The Rings of Saturn - with its curious
archive of photographs - chronicles a tour across epochs as well as
countryside. On his way, the narrator meets lonely eccentrics
inhabiting tumble-down mansions and links them to Rembrandt's
"Anatomy Lesson," the natural history of the herring, a matchstick
model of the Temple of Jerusalem, the travels of Sir Thomas
Browne's skull, and the massive bombings of WWII. Cataloging
change, oblivion, and memories, he connects sugar fortunes, Joseph
Conrad, and the horrors of colonizing the Belgian Congo. The
narrator finds threads which run from an abandoned bridge over the
River Blyth to the terrible dowager Empress Tzu Hsi and the silk
industry in Norwich. "Sebald," as The New Yorker stated, "weaves
his tale together with a complexity and historical sweep that
easily encompasses both truth and fiction." The Emigrants (hailed
by Susan Sontag as an "astonishing masterpiece-perfect while being
unlike any book one has ever read") was "one of the great books of
the last few years," as Michael Ondaatje noted: "and now The Rings
of Saturn is a similar and as strange a triumph."
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