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020    9781250045799 |q(e-book)
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050 00 PR9095.9.D43 |bE95 2014
100 1  De Waal, Elisabeth, |d1899-1991.
245 14 The exiles return : |ba novel / |cElisabeth de Waal ; with a foreword by Edmund de Waal.
250    First U.S. edition.
264  1 New York : |bPicador, |c2014.
300    xiv, 319 pages ; |c22 cm
336    text |2rdacontent
337    unmediated |2rdamedia
338    volume |2rdacarrier
500    Originally published in the United Kingdom by Persephone Books in 2013.
520    "Vienna is demolished by war, the city an alien landscape of ruined castles, a fractured ruling class, and people picking up the pieces. Elisabeth de Waal's mesmerizing The Exiles Return is a stunningly vivid postwar story of Austria's fallen aristocrats, unrepentant Nazis, and a culture degraded by violence. The novel follows a number of exiles, each returning under very different circumstances, who must come to terms with a city in painful recovery. There is Kuno Adler, a Jewish research scientist, who is tired of his unfulfilling existence in America; Theophil Kanakis, a wealthy Greek businessman, seeking to plunder some of the spoils of war; Marie-Theres, a brooding teenager, sent by her parents in hopes that the change of scene will shake her out of her funk; and Prince "Bimbo" Grein, a handsome young man with a title divested of all its social currency. With immaculate precision and sensitivity, de Waal, an exile herself, captures a city rebuilding and relearning its identity, and the people who have to do the same. As mesmerizing as Stefan Zweig's The World of Yesterday, and as tragic as Hans Fallada's Every Man Dies Alone, de Waal has written a masterpiece of European literature, an artifact revealing a moment in our history, clear as a snapshot, but timeless as well"-- |cProvided by publisher.
591    Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024
650  0 World War, 1939-1945 |xRefugees |zAustria |zVienna |vFiction.
650  0 Jewish refugees |zAustria |zVienna |vFiction.
650  0 Refugees |zAustria |zVienna |vFiction.
650  0 Homecoming |vFiction.
651  0 Vienna (Austria) |xHistory |y20th century |vFiction.
655  7 Fiction. |2lcgft
856 42  |3Cover image |uhttp://www.netread.com/jcusers2/bk1388/782/9781250045782/image/lgcover.9781250045782.jpg
852 0   |bstacks |hPR9095.9.D43 |iE95 2014