Utz
by Chatwin, Bruce
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0670824976
- ISBN 13
- 9780670824977
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Synopsis
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.
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- Bookmarc's (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- SCW05775
- Title
- Utz
- Author
- Chatwin, Bruce
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First American Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0670824976
- ISBN 13
- 9780670824977
- Publisher
- Viking Penguin
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, USA
- Date Published
- 1989
- Keywords
- Literature Literary Fiction Prague Czechoslovakia Czech Republic Jew Judaica Golem Rabbi Loew Harlequin Stalin Josef Stalinism World War II Gestapo Prize Forster E M Prize Hawthornden
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction / Modern Fiction Firsts;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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