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WITH 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 it

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Author

Elisabeth de Waal

Publisher

New York: Picador

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781250045799

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.42 / 5 (328 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13