Post Office Girl, The

Post Office Girl, The
Stefan Zweig
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 288pg
15 Jan 2009 UK
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9780954221720
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A young Austrian woman, Christine, toils away in a provincial post office when, out of the blue, a telegram arrives inviting her to join an American aunt she's never known in a fashionable Swiss resort. She accepts and is swept up into a world of almost inconceivable wealth and unleashed desire. She feels herself utterly transformed. Then, just as abruptly, her aunt cuts her loose and she has to return to the post office, where - yes - nothing will ever be the same. Christine meets Ferdinand, a bitter war veteran and disappointed architect, forced to work on construction sites. They are drawn to each other, just as they are crushed by a sense of deprivation, anger and shame. Inevitably their attempts at love look set to flounder until, in one desperate and decisive act, they find a way to remake their world from within.
"Just finished reading this beautiful, fast-moving, tragic novel... it will haunt me for a long while." Neil Tennant (Pet Shop Boys website) 'Stefan Zweig was a late and magnificent bloom from the hothouse of fin de siecle Vienna...The posthumous publication of a Zweig novel affords an opportunity to revisit this gifted writer...The Post Office Girl is captivating.' The Wall Street Journal 'Zweig is one of the masters of the short story and novella, and by 'one of the masters' I mean that he's up there with Maupassant, Chekhov, James, Poe, or indeed anyone you care to name.' Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian 'A brilliant writer.' The New York Times 'I do think this is exceptional. There are scenes of hope and despair that are so lucid, powerful and alive. A classic.' Esther Freud 'A wonderfully convincing, atmospheric novel that shimmers with a strange conviction.' Eileen Battersby in the Irish Times 'A dreamy, ethereal symphony of Alpine beauty. Zweig shows himself to be a keen observer of the post-First World War scene, with an extraordinary capacity to depict the troubled psyche of his protagonist.' Paddy Kehoe, Book of the Week RTE Guide"
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.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780954221720
Published: 15 Jan 2009
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Sort of Books
Publisher: Sort of Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 288
Dewey: 833.912

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