A posthumously discovered masterwork. 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. This 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; 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.