The Rings of Saturn

Sue says about The Rings of Saturn: "An interesting story about a man walking the coast of Suffolk, and, inspired by the landscape, he muses on life, history, and philosophy. It inspired my first visit to Suffolk and we've returned regularly ever since."

What begins as the record of W. G. Sebald’s own journey on foot through coastal East Anglia, from Lowestoft to Bungay, becomes the conductor of evocations of people and cultures past and present. From Chateaubriand, Thomas Browne, Swinburne and Conrad, to fishing fleets, skulls and silkworms, the result is an intricately patterned and haunting book on the transience of all things human.

Author: Sebald, W. G., Hulse, Michael
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Published on 7 November 2002 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage Classics) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback / softback | 320 pages, 75
195 x 127 x 25 | 214g