In the summer of 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on one of the Kindertransports and placed with foster parents in Wales. For reasons of their own, the childless Calvinist couple erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity. Winner of Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize for Fiction 2002 and Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2002. Short-listed for WH Smith Literary Prize 2002 and Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize: Fiction 2002.