Three men walk the pages of this work: painter Mathias Grunewald, botanist G.W. Steller and W.G. Sebald himself. Written as a prose poem in three parts, it delves into each of these lives, teasing out the uncertainties of the past and revealing the burden that history places on our shoulders.

Three men walk the pages of this work: painter Mathias Grunewald, botanist G.W. Steller and W.G. Sebald himself. Written as a prose poem in three parts, it delves into each of these lives, teasing out the uncertainties of the past and revealing the burden that history places on our shoulders.