num_pages: 152
description: 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."A triumph." -- The Washington Post"Exquisite. . . One thinks of a Vermeer painting, a luminous miniature disclosing worlds within worlds." -- Newsday
language: English
title: Utz
titlecomplete: Utz (Transaction Large Print Books)
characters: Kaspar Utz
genres: 20th Century, Literature, Literary Fiction, Novels, Czech Literature, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Travel, Art, British Literature
ratings_count: 3308
awards: awardedAt: 568022400000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 1641024000000
name: Metų verstinė knyga
category: Fiction
publisher: Isis Large Print Books