Before the Decade Ends, Here Are the Best Novels of the 21st Century

Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald (2001)

Jacques Austerlitz knows nothing of his real family. He is raised by a Methodist minister and his wife; however, years later, the memories return to Austerlitz, and he follows them to a void at the heart of twentieth-century Europe.

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