Summer Before the Dark

Stefan Zweig and Joseph Roth, Ostend 1936

Volker Weidermann (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

176 Seiten

2016
Pushkin Press (Verlag)
9781782272038 (ISBN)

Infos

A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week

Ostend, 1936: as fascism and war threaten Europe, the seaside town is playing host to exiled artists and intellectuals. Among them are Stefan Zweig - a man in crisis, seeking refuge in Ostend with his lover Lotte - and his estranged friend Joseph Roth.

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'Absolutely exquisite . . . a contemporary classic' Dave Eggers

'Death in Venice with more sex, more booze, more action.' FT

BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week

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.

Autor

The award-winning writer and literary critic Volker Weidermann was born in Germany in 1969, and studied political science and German language and literature in Heidelberg and Berlin. He is the cultural editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung and lives in Berlin.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheinungsdatum: 30.01.2016
• Übersetzer: Carol Brown Janeway
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 129 x 198 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• ISBN-13: 9781782272038 / 9781782272038
• Zustand: Neuware