WITH A FOREWORD BY EDMUND DE WAAL, AUTHOR OF "THE HARE WITH AMBER
EYES
"SET IN THE ASHES OF POST-SECOND WORLD WAR VIENNA, A POWERFUL,
SUBTLE NOVEL OF EXILES RETURNING HOME FIFTEEN YEARS AFTER FLEEING
HITLER'S DEADLY REIGN
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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