Burning Secret (Pushkin Collection) - Softcover

Stefan Zweig

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1782274529 ISBN 13: 9781782274520

Publisher: Pushkin Press, 2017

Synopsis

'Zweig's writing is some of the most brilliant of the twentieth century' Independent

Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail running away into the dark.

The suave Baron, bored on his holiday in an Austrian mountain resort, begins a flirtation with a beautiful woman. When his advances are rejected, he seeks a new way to her heart - by befriending her twelve-year-old son. To the Baron all this is a game, but he cannot begin to imagine the effect he is having on the boy's life...

Burning Secret is a darkly compelling tale of seduction, jealousy and betrayal from the master of the novella.

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Review:

'Breathtaking... the final sentence is unlike anything I have ever read before; and transforms not only the book, but, in a way, the reader as well' --Nick Lezard, Guardian

'Zweig is the most adult of writers; civilised, urbane, but never jaded or cynical; a realist who none the less believed in the possibility the necessity of empathy' --Independent

About the Author:

Stefan Zweig was born in 1881 in Vienna, into a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family. He studied in Berlin and Vienna and was first known as a poet and translator, then as a biographer. Between the wars, Zweig was an international bestseller with a string of hugely popular novellas including Letter from an Unknown Woman, Amok and Fear. In 1934, with the rise of Nazism, he left Austria, and lived in London, Bath and New York - a period during which he produced his most celebrated works: his only novel, Beware of Pity, and his memoir, The World of Yesterday. He eventually settled in Brazil, where in 1942 he and his wife were found dead in an apparent double suicide. Much of his work is available from Pushkin Press.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1782274529
• ISBN 13: 9781782274520
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128