{"product_id":"the-exiles-return","title":"The Exiles Return","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook info:\u003c\/strong\u003e The Exiles Return (Hardcover, 336 pages – Picador, 2015) – Picador, 2015. Language: Eng.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCondition: Like New\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWITH A FOREWORD BY EDMUND DE WAAL, AUTHOR OF THE HARE WITH AMBER EYESSET 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. Mesmerizing and tragic, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Elisabeth de Waal","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53103851241696,"sku":"9781250063748","price":53.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/5681\/6608\/files\/71qfDU83W6L._SY522.jpg?v=1781771040","url":"https:\/\/medicalbook.online\/products\/the-exiles-return","provider":"medicalbook.online","version":"1.0","type":"link"}