num_pages: 154
description: 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.
language: English
title: Utz
titlecomplete: Utz
characters: Kaspar Utz
genres: British Literature, Travel, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literature, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Czech Literature, Art
ratings_count: 3309
awards: awardedAt: 568022400000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 1641024000000
name: Metų verstinė knyga
category: Fiction
publisher: Penguin Books