'I alone know that I am only just beginning to live.' He is distinguished, rich, a member of fashionable society-utterlybored. But, over the course of one fantastic night, a young Baron becomes a thief, unashamed, and awakes to life for the first time.
This collection is full of tales of infinite passions, of intense encounters that transform lives, a knock on a door that forces a whole community to take flight, a doomed attempt to save a soul poisoned by addiction, a love soured into awful cruelty, of longing and liberation. They are the gripping work of a master storyteller, unmatched and completely unforgettable.
"Zweig’s impassioned pursuit of personal freedom seems more relevant than ever." — Newsweek
"One of the masters of the short story." — Nicholas Lezard, Guardian
"Zweig belongs with those masters of the novella-Maupassant, Turgenev, Chekhov." — Paul Bailey
"One of the joys of recent years is the translation into English of Stefan Zweig's stories. They have an astringency of outlook and a mastery of scale that I find enormously enjoyable." — Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with the Amber Eyes
"For far too long, our links with Zweig... have been broken. Pushkin Press's phenomenal, heartbreaking collection is a reminder that it's time to forge them again." — Los Angeles Review of Books
"Zweig, prolific storyteller and embodiment of a vanished Mitteleuropa, seems to be back, and in a big way." — New York Times
'I alone know that I am only just beginning to live.' He is distinguished, rich, a member of fashionable society-utterlybored. But, over the course of one fantastic night, a young Baron becomes a thief, unashamed, and awakes to life for the first time.
This collection is full of tales of infinite passions, of intense encounters that transform lives, a knock on a door that forces a whole community to take flight, a doomed attempt to save a soul poisoned by addiction, a love soured into awful cruelty, of longing and liberation. They are the gripping work of a master storyteller, unmatched and completely unforgettable.
Praise
"Zweig’s impassioned pursuit of personal freedom seems more relevant than ever." — Newsweek
"One of the masters of the short story." — Nicholas Lezard, Guardian
"Zweig belongs with those masters of the novella-Maupassant, Turgenev, Chekhov." — Paul Bailey
"One of the joys of recent years is the translation into English of Stefan Zweig's stories. They have an astringency of outlook and a mastery of scale that I find enormously enjoyable." — Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with the Amber Eyes
"For far too long, our links with Zweig... have been broken. Pushkin Press's phenomenal, heartbreaking collection is a reminder that it's time to forge them again." — Los Angeles Review of Books
"Zweig, prolific storyteller and embodiment of a vanished Mitteleuropa, seems to be back, and in a big way." — New York Times
