A book about a Holocaust survivor searching for his parents’ identity won a prestigious literary prize. “Austerlitz,” by W.G. Sebald, an acclaimed German-born novelist who wrote about the Holocaust and memory, won the National Book Critics Circle fiction prize, awarded Monday in New York.
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