Book description
Separated for nine years by the First World War Ludwig has finally
returned home to meet the woman he so passionately loved, and who had
promised to wait for him. But circumstances have changed ...
Confronted with an uncertain future, and still haunted by the past,
together they will discover whether their love has survived hardships,
betrayals, and the lapse of time. Zweig's long-lost final
novella-recently discovered in manuscript form-is a poignant
examination of the angst of nostalgia and the fragility of love.
STEFAN ZWEIG was born in 1881 in Vienna, a member of a wealthy
Austrian-Jewish family. He studied in Berlin and Vienna and was first
known as a poet and translator, then as a biographer. Zweig travelled
widely, living in Salzburg between the wars, and enjoying literary fame.
His stories and novellas were collected in 1934. In the same year, with
the rise of Nazism, he briefly moved to London, taking British
citizenship. After a short period in New York, he settled in Brazil
where in 1942 he and his wife were found in bed in an apparent double
suicide. ANTHEA BELL is the recipient of the Schlegel-Tieck Prize for
translation from German, the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, and the
Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize in 2002 for the translation of W. G. Sebald's
Austerlitz, and the 2003 Austrian State Prize for Literary Translation.
She lives in Cambridge, England.
