AusterlitzMesmeric, haunting and heartbreakingly tragic. A profound, alluring masterwork of singular genius Eileen Battersby, Irish Times In 1939, five year old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents. This childless couple promptly erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity and he grows up ignorant of his past. Later in life, after a career as an architectural historian, Austerlitz having avoided all