The Post Office Girl: Stefan Zweig’s Grand Hotel Novel

ISBN-13: 9780954221720 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 288 str.

Stefan Zweig

Opis

The post-office girl is Christine, who looks after her ailing mother and toils in a provincial Austrian post office in the years just after the Great War. One afternoon, as she is dozing among the official forms and stamps, a telegraph arrives addressed to her. It is from her rich aunt, who lives in America.

Recenzje

An extraordinary work...there's a volcanic energy to Zweig's writing...wholly mesmerising. The Herald

O autorze

Stefan Zweig (1981-1942) was the most widely translated writer of the 1920s and 1930s. A Jewish pacifist, he was driven by the Nazis into exile, first in London, then in Brazil, where he committed suicide in a pact with his wife. The manuscript for The Post Office Girl was found among his papers. Zweig's other novels include Beware of Pity and Chess Story.