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Book Description
Bruce Chatwin's bestselling 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.
"A triumph." --The Washington Post
"Exquisite. . . One thinks of a Vermeer painting, a luminous miniature disclosing worlds within worlds." --Newsday
- Book Details
- English Books
- Rating:
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3 stars 2 stars 1 star - Paperback 160 Pages
- Edition: Reissue
- ISBN-10: 0140115765
- ISBN-13: 9780140115765
- Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
- Pub date: Dec 01, 1989
- Dimensions: 20 cm x 13 cm x 1 cm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover and Others
- In other languages:
... and other languagesDeutsche Bücher and Libri Italiani
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