New York. 1988. Jonathan Cape. 1st British Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0224026089. 154 pages. hardcover. Jacket photograph - the 'Fool' card from a German tarot pack, made by Martin Boehme of Dresden, c. 1780. keywords: Literature England . FROM THE PUBLISHER - 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. inventory #12492
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| Author bio | Charles Bruce Chatwin (13 May 1940 - 18 January 1989) was an English novelist and travel writer. He won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel On the Black Hill (1982). Married and bisexual, he was one of the first prominent men in Britain known to have contracted HIV and died of AIDS, although he hid the facts of his illness. |