Ostend by Volker Weidermann

Ostend by Volker Weidermann

It's the summer of 1936, and the writer Stefan Zweig is in crisis. His German publisher no longer wants him, his marriage is collapsing, and his house in Austria--searched by the police two years earlier--no longer feels like home. He's been dreaming of Ostend, the Belgian beach town that is a paradise of promenades, parasols, and old friends. So he journeys there with his lover, Lotte Altmann, and reunites with fellow writer and semi-estranged close friend Joseph Roth, who is himself about to fall in love. For a moment, they create a fragile haven. But as Europe begins to crumble around them, the writers find themselves trapped on vacation, in exile, watching the world burn. In Ostend, Volker Weidermann lyrically recounts the summer before the dark, when a coterie of artists, intellectuals, drunks, revolutionaries, and madmen found themselves in limbo while Europe teetered on the edge of fascism and total war.

Ostend is the true story of two of the twentieth century's great writers, written with a novelist's eye for pacing, chronology, and language--a dazzling work of historical nonfiction.

(Translated from the German by Carol Brown Janeway)

Weidermann, Volker: - Volker Weidermann is the literary director and editor of the Sunday edition of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the author of a number of works of literary history and critical biography.

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ISBN 13	9781101870266
ISBN 10	1101870265
Title	Ostend
Author	Volker Weidermann
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2016-01-26
Number of pages	176
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