The exiles return: a novel
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"Vienna is demolished by war, the city an alien landscape of ruined castles, a fractured ruling class, and people picking up the pieces. Elisabeth de Waal's mesmerizing The Exiles Return is a stunningly vivid postwar story of Austria's fallen aristocrats, unrepentant Nazis, and a culture degraded by violence. The novel follows a number of exiles, each returning under very different circumstances, who must come to terms with a city in painful recovery. There is Kuno Adler, a Jewish research scientist, who is tired of his unfulfilling existence in America; Theophil Kanakis, a wealthy Greek businessman, seeking to plunder some of the spoils of war; Marie-Theres, a brooding teenager, sent by her parents in hopes that the change of scene will shake her out of her funk; and Prince "Bimbo" Grein, a handsome young man with a title divested of all its social currency. With immaculate precision and sensitivity, de Waal, an exile herself, captures a city rebuilding and relearning its identity, and the people who have to do the same. As mesmerizing as Stefan Zweig's The World of Yesterday, and as tragic as Hans Fallada's Every Man Dies Alone, de Waal has written a masterpiece of European literature, an artifact revealing a moment in our history, clear as a snapshot, but timeless as well"--
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History
Homecoming
Homecoming -- Fiction
Jewish fiction
Jewish fiction -- Fiction
Jewish refugees
Jewish refugees -- Austria -- Vienna -- Fiction
Literature
Literature -- Fiction
Refugees
Refugees -- Austria -- Vienna -- Fiction
Vienna (Austria) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
World War, 1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees -- Austria -- Vienna -- Fiction
History
Homecoming
Homecoming -- Fiction
Jewish fiction
Jewish fiction -- Fiction
Jewish refugees
Jewish refugees -- Austria -- Vienna -- Fiction
Literature
Literature -- Fiction
Refugees
Refugees -- Austria -- Vienna -- Fiction
Vienna (Austria) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
World War, 1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees -- Austria -- Vienna -- Fiction
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Electronic books
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Jewish refugees -- Austria -- Vienna -- Fiction
Literature -- Fiction
Refugees -- Austria -- Vienna -- Fiction
Vienna (Austria) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees -- Austria -- Vienna -- Fiction
Homecoming -- Fiction
Jewish fiction -- Fiction
Jewish refugees -- Austria -- Vienna -- Fiction
Literature -- Fiction
Refugees -- Austria -- Vienna -- Fiction
Vienna (Austria) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees -- Austria -- Vienna -- Fiction
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The exiles return : a novel / Elisabeth de Waal ; with a foreword by Edmund de Waal
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History
Homecoming
Jewish fiction
Jewish refugees
Literature
Refugees
World War, 1939-1945
History
Homecoming
Jewish fiction
Jewish refugees
Literature
Refugees
World War, 1939-1945
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