The Exiles Return

Resumen del libro

Set in the ashes of post World War II Vienna, a powerful, subtle novel of five people as they return home, fifteen years after being exiled by Hitler's deadly reign
Elisabeth de Waal's stunning novel follows a number of exiles, each returning has come to terms with a city in painful recovery: Kuno Adler, a Jewish research scientist, is tired of his drab existence in America; Theophil Kanakis, a wealthy Greek businessman seeks to plunder some of the spoils of war; Marie-Theres, a brooding teenage girl, has been 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.

In The Exiles Return, de Waal captures a city rebuilding and relearning its identity, and the people who have to do the same, with immaculate precision and sensitivity. As mesmerizing as Stefan Zweig's World Before 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.

Includes a foreword by Edmund de Waal, author of the bestselling The Hare with Amber Eyes

Biografía del autor

Elisabeth de Waal, geboren 1899 in Wien, gestorben 1991, ist die älteste Tochter von Viktor von Ephrussi und der Baroness Emmy Schey von Koromla. Sie wurde zu Hause und im Schottengymnasium erzogen und studierte Philosophie, Jus und Ökonomie und lebte in Paris, der Schweiz und schlie lich in England. Sie verfasste zahlreiche Romane, schrieb Gedichte und korrespondierte mit Rilke über Poesie.