Utz
By: Bruce Chatwin
Publisher: J. Cape
Published: 1988
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 154
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.