| Utz Contributor(s): Chatwin, Bruce (Author) |
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ISBN: 0140115765 ISBN-13: 9780140115765 Publisher: Penguin Books OUR PRICE: $20.90 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1989 Annotation: Kaspar Utz is a compulsive porcelain collector and silent rebel. Permitted to leave Czechoslovakia each year, he always returns since he cannot take his collection with him. For Kaspar Utz is as much a prisoner of the porcelain as he is of the Communist state. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Psychological |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 89032727 |
| Physical Information: 0.43" H x 5.06" W x 7.98" (0.29 lbs) 160 pages |
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| Publisher Description: An elegant novel set in Prague about the possibility of freedom in an unfree state, from the acclaimed author of The Songlines and In Patagonia Utz collects Meissen porcelain with a passion. His collection, which he has protected and enlarged through both World War II and Czechoslovakia's years of Stalinism, numbers more than 1,000 pieces, all crammed into his two-room Prague flat. Utz is allowed to leave the country each year, and although he has considered defection, he always returns. He cannot take his precious collection with him, but he cannot leave it, either. And so Utz is as much owned by his porcelain as it is owned by him, as much of a prisoner of the collection as of the Communist state. A fascinating, enigmatic man, Kaspar Utz is one of Bruce Chatwin's finest creations. And his story, as delicately cast as one of Utz's porcelain figures, is unforgettable. |