The last work of fiction by one of the twentieth centurys greatest artists, Extinction is widely considered Thomas Bernhards magnum opus.

Franz-Josef Murauthe intellectual black sheep of a powerful Austrian land-owning familylives in Rome in self-imposed exile, surrounded by a coterie of artistic and intellectual friends. On returning from his sisters wedding on the family estate of Wolfsegg, having resolved never to go home again, Murau receives a telegram informing him of the death of his parents and brother in a car crash. Not only must he now go back, he must do so as the master of Wolfsegg. And he must decide its fate. Written in the seamless, mesmerizing style for which Bernhard was
famous, Extinction is the ultimate proof of his extraordinary literary genius.