{"product_id":"the-exiles-return","title":"The Exiles Return","description":"\u003cp\u003eWITH A FOREWORD BY EDMUND DE WAAL, AUTHOR of \"THE HARE WITH AMBER EYES\"\u003cbr\u003e\n                    \"\"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. 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":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42973124034726,"sku":"9781250045782","price":19.9,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0443\/8471\/4918\/products\/9781250045782_1.jpg?v=1656046428","url":"https:\/\/bookxcess.myshopify.com\/products\/the-exiles-return","provider":"Staging Site ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}