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Bruce Chatwin

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Vintage
08 January 1999

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE Bruce Chatwin's final, bestselling novel

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This is Chatwin's unforgettable novel of a man in war-torn Communist Prague, driven to protect his collection of porcelain figurines at any cost.

Bruce Chatwin's bestselling novel traces the fortunes of the enigmatic and unconventional hero, Kaspar Utz. Despite the restrictions of Cold War Czechoslovakia, Utz asserts his individuality through his devotion to his precious collection of Meissen porcelain. Although Utz is permitted to leave the country each year, and considers defecting each time, he is not allowed to take his porcelain with him and so he always returns to his Czech home, a prisoner both of the Communist state and of his collection.

'Chatwin at his most erudite and evocative' New York Times

'His final tour de force... a pristine miniature' Independent

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE

By: Bruce Chatwin
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 8mm
Weight: 106g
ISBN: 9780099770015
ISBN 10: 0099770016
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 08 January 1999
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Bruce Chatwin reinvented British travel writing with his first book, In Patagonia, and followed it with four other books, each unique and extraordinary. He died in 1989.

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Utz, a porcelain collector, lives in a very troubled Prague where man is not in control of his life but subject to political events. Utz deals with the situation by creating his own alternative world - that of his Meissen figures, which retain their purity and beauty while the surrounding world decays. A Booker-shortlisted novel, rich in ideas. (Kirkus UK)