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Utz

Bruce Chatwin

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#3649 of 8,085 books · #1855 in Fiction

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize (1988).

Bruce Chatwin's novel traces the fortunes of Kaspar Utz, an enigmatic collector of Meissen porcelain living in Cold War Czechoslovakia. Although Utz is allowed to leave the country each year, and considers defecting each time, he always returns to his Czech home, a prisoner of the Communist state and of his precious collection.

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Publisher
Jonathan Cape
ISBN-13
9780224026086
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Obsession and collectingCold War CommunismIdentity and belonging

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