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      Utz

      by Bruce Chatwin
      Published
      Feb 1989
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      144
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      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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      Dec 1998 Ebury Publishing (UK) ISBN13 9780099770015 ISBN10 0099770016
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      Dec 1989 Penguin ISBN13 9780140115765 ISBN10 0140115765
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      Oct 1999 Penguin (Canada) ISBN13 9780143195146 ISBN10 014319514X
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      First Edition Feb 1989 Viking ISBN13 9780670824977 ISBN10 0670824976
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      Dec 1989 Penguin ISBN13 9781101522837 ISBN10 1101522836
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      Dec 1989 Penguin ISBN10 B004XY6L3Y
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      Dec 2014 Vintage ISBN13 9781448105045 ISBN10 1448105048
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      Oct 1990 ISIS Large Print Books ISBN13 9781850893288 ISBN10 1850893284
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