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Sebald has become something of an obsession. His books take a hold of you in a way that can't be properly explained. They catch you off guard and it's impossible to not be fascinated by the way that he writes and by the topics that he decides to focus on.
This book deals with a walking tour that the narrator (Sebald) makes around Norfolk and Suffolk on the North Sea coast of England. This area of England had its peak of importance many hundreds of years ago when the wool trade with the Continent was the main source of revenue for the country and Norfolk ports were the richest and busiest in England. The area has experienced a long slow decline since the Middle Ages and Sebald describes it as an unreal place, fallen out of step with the rest of the world and as being almost removed from Time. His journey around the coast is a description of human history and the impossibility of really knowing our world and and how our lives and death fit into it.
It's very hard to do justice to the character of his writing and of the way that his books take over your mind when you are reading them. I hope I don't sound completely ridiculous with this review. But this book is fantastic and compelling and completely necessary, pretty much an essential book.