by Bruce Chatwin · Penguin Publishing Group · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140115765
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«Utz» is the historical novel by Bruce Chatwin, published by Penguin Publishing Group in paperback (160 pages, in English).
Kaspar Utz collects Meissen porcelain in communist Prague. Each year he can leave Czechoslovakia, but he always returns: he cannot abandon his collection of over a thousand pieces. The novel portrays a man trapped between beauty and the regime, and reflects on freedom, possession, and the power of objects.
For those seeking a story of collecting and obsession set in Cold War Eastern Europe, with a historical and literary backdrop.
Charles Bruce Chatwin was an English travel writer, novelist and journalist. His first book, In Patagonia (1977), established Chatwin as a travel writer, although he considered himself instead a storyteller, interested in bringing to light unusual tales. He won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel On the Black Hill (1982), while his novel Utz (1988) was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In 2008 The Times ranked Chatwin as number 46 on their list of "50 Greatest British Writers Since 1945".
