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The Exiles Return by Elisabeth de Waal is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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"The Exiles Return is set in Occupied Vienna in 1954-5. It describes five people who grew up there before the war and have come back to see if they can re-establish the life they have lost. The novel begins with Professor Kuno Adler, who is Jewish and fled Vienna after the Anschluss (the events of March 1938 when Hitler's troops marched into Austria). He is returning from New York to try and take up his old life as a research scientist. We realise through his confrontation with officialdom and with the changed fabric of the city (the lime trees are there no longer, it is hard to know who behaved well during the war and who was a Nazi sympathiser) that a refugee who goes back has a very difficult time. Next we are introduced to a wealthy Greek named Kanakis..."--Publisher description

Who reads The Exiles Return?

Author

Elisabeth de Waal

Publisher

Persephone Books Limited; Persephone Books Ltd

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781903155929

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

3.42 / 5 (55 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13