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Utz

Utz

Utz
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Utz Paperback - 1989

by Chatwin, Bruce

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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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Penguin, 1989-12-01. Reissue. paperback. Used: Good. 7.76x5.08x0.37. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy.
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  • Title Utz
  • Author Chatwin, Bruce
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reissue
  • Condition Used: Good
  • Pages 160
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1989-12-01
  • Bookseller's Inventory # SONG0140115765
  • ISBN 9780140115765 / 0140115765
  • Weight 0.29 lbs (0.13 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.98 x 5.06 x 0.43 in (20.27 x 12.85 x 1.09 cm)
  • Size 7.76x5.08x0.37
  • Age range 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Collectors and collecting, Czechoslovakia
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 89032727
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
  • Quantity available 1

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Summary

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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From the publisher

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.

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Citations

  • New York Times, 10/10/1999, Page 36

About the author

Bruce Chatwin (1940-1989) was the author of In Patagonia, The Viceroy of Ouidah, On the Black Hill, The Songlines, and Utz. His other books are What Am I Doing Here and Anatomy of Restlessness, posthumous anthologies of shorter works, and Far Journeys, a collection of his photographs that also includes selections from his travel notebooks.

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