The exiles return
De Waal, Elisabeth, 1899-19912013
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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.
Main title:
The exiles return / by Elisabeth de Waal ; preface by Edmund De Waal.
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Imprint:
London : Persephone, 2013.
Collation:
328 pages
ISBN:
9781903155929 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.912GEN700 WAAL
Language:
English
BRN:
1232542
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