The Post Office Girl: Stefan Zweig - Brossura

Zweig, Stefan

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0954221729 ISBN 13: 9780954221720

Casa editrice: Faber and Faber, 2009

Riassunto

“CINDERELLA MEETS BONNIE AND CLYDE IN THIS HAUNTING TALE OF THE BOOM AND BUST OF CAPITALISM” Christine toils away in a provincial Austrian 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. Bowed by the grinding poverty and hardships of the post-war years and anxious about her ailing and dependent mother she accepts, only to be 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, of anger and shame. Yet their attempts at seduction and love can only flounder among the degradations of poverty until, in one desperate and decisive act, they find a way to remake their world from within.

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Recensione:

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

A far more powerful, worthwhile and enjoyable novel than our present bestsellers (David Sexton Evening Standard)

This haunting novel is a monument to Zweig's skill (Sunday Telegraph)

Language that pierces both brain and heart (The Spectator)

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 Guardian)

A brilliant writer. (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)

Descrizione del libro:

The 'hidden treasure' of European literature that kick-started a Zweig renaissance when it was first published in the UK in 2009

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• Editore: Faber and Faber
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0954221729
• ISBN 13: 9780954221720
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 288