Summer Before the Dark: Stefan Zweig and Joseph Roth, Ostend 1936 - Couverture souple

Weidermann, Volker

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1782272976 ISBN 13 : 9781782272977

Editeur : Pushkin Press, 2017

Synopsis

A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week

It's as if they're made for each other. Two men, both falling, but holding each other up for a time.

Ostend, 1936: the Belgian seaside town is playing host to a coterie of artists, intellectuals and madmen, who find themselves in limbo while Europe gazes into an abyss of fascism and war. Among them is Stefan Zweig, a man in crisis: his German publisher has shunned him, his marriage is collapsing, his house in Austria no longer feels like home. Along with his lover Lotte, he seeks refuge in this paradise of promenades and parasols, where he reunites with his estranged friend Joseph Roth. For a moment, they create a fragile haven; but as Europe begins to crumble around them, they find themselves trapped on an uncanny kind of holiday, watching the world burn.

'Evocative, sharply drawn portraits... an engrossing history' Kirkus, starred review

'Sparkling...Weidermann's storytelling is piquant' Publishers Weekly

'Brilliantly researched and riveting' Die Welt

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Volker Weidermann (b. 1969) is literary editor at Der Spiegel and the award-winning author of several literary histories and critical biographies. In 2009, he won the Kurt Tucholsky Prize for Literary Journalism for Buch der verbrannten Bücher ('Book of Burned Books'). Summer Before the Dark, his first work to appear in English, was a bestseller in Germany and is being translated into several languages.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pushkin Press
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1782272976
• ISBN 13: 9781782272977
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 176
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• Personne responsable: non disponible