The Novels

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<p><b>A collected edition of Bruce Chatwins acclaimed, captivating novels <i>On the Black Hill</i>,<i>Utz</i>and<i>The Viceroy of Ouidah</i> with an introduction by Hanya Yanagihara</b></p><p>While Bruce Chatwin is best known as a master of travel literature, his three acclaimed novels must not be overlooked. Here we see a writer exploring human life, from its freedoms to its limits, in ever more exhilarating and unexpected ways.</p><p>In<i>On the Black Hill</i>, twin brothers begin to realise that the world beyond their familiar fields is changing. In<i>Utz</i>, a scholar visits a communist state to meet an eccentric porcelain collector. And in<i>The Viceroy of Ouidah</i>, an ambitious slave trader makes a choice that could threaten his ultimate dream.</p>

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<b>Bruce Chatwin</b>was born in Sheffield in 1940. He worked for Sothebys and the<i>Sunday Times</i>before announcing his departure in a telegram: Gone to Patagonia for six months. This trip inspired the first of his books,<i>In Patagonia</i>, which won the Hawthornden Prize and the E.M. Forster Award and launched his writing career. Two of Chatwins books have been made into feature films:<i>The Viceroy of Ouidah</i>(retitled<i>Cobra Verde</i>), directed by Werner Herzog, and Andrew Grieves<i>On the Black Hill</i>.<i>The Songlines</i>was a Number 1 bestseller while<i>On the Black Hill</i>won the Whitbread First Novel Award and<i>Utz</i>was shortlisted for the 1988 Booker Prize. He died in January 1989, aged forty-eight.

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