The Rings of Saturn, (Paperback)

from wandering_star

This is, superficially, a travel book - a record of a journey along the coast of East Anglia. Most of the book is not about the journey itself, but about the thoughts and associations which are triggered by what the narrator sees - so, for example, fishermen on a beach lead us to a natural histor...

from missizicks

This was like going for a walk with a friend. A really clever, informed, interested and interesting friend. Wonderful and moving. I didn't want it to end.

from DieFledermaus

W.G. Sebald wrote strikingly odd and original books which mix fact and fiction, the sweep of history and the smallest of subjects, with a tone at once distant and intimate. The Rings of Saturn is a perfect example of this and if it's not quite perfect, that's only in comparison to The Emigrants -...

from UinzatoMone

I found this book next to a big blue recycling bin while walking to work one morning. It's probably the best thing I've ever found. Little did I then realize how lucky it was that I stopped to see what someone had thrown out. I can only imagine that its owner had died and some cretin of a relativ...

from JanetinLondon

This is one of the best books I have read in a very long time. I don't really know how to describe it, and I can't remember ever reading anything quite like it. It's ostensibly Sebald's thoughts and adventures as he wanders along the Suffolk coast in eastern England. But I imagine it's more often...