Following the death of her husband, a middle-aged Englishwoman travels through Europe to escape loneliness and boredom. One evening during her stay at the French Riviera, while enjoying the atmosphere of the Monte Carlo Casino, she becomes mesmerized by the obsessive gambling of a young Polish aristocrat. This fateful encounter leads to passion, despair and death, changing both their lives forever.
Stefan Zweig-novelist, librettist, poet, translator and biographer-was born in 1881, a member of a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family. He was educated in Berlin and Vienna. His stories and novellas were collected in 1934 when, faced with the rise of the Nazis he moved to London, taking British citizenship, before settling in Brazil, where, in 1942, he and his wife were found dead in bed.
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Stefan Zweig, novelist, biographer, poet and translator, was born in 1881 in Vienna. With the rise of Nazism, he moved from Salzburg to London, New York and Brazil where he died in 1942.
'The rediscovery of this extraordinary writer could well be on a par with last year's refinding of the long-lost Stoner, by John Williams' Simon Winchester, Daily Telegraph
'At once the literary heir of Chekhov, Conrad, and Maupassant' Harvard Review
'The Updike of his day... Zweig is a lucid writer, and Bell renders his prose flawlessly' New York Observer
'Zweig is the most adult of writers; civilised, urbane, but never jaded or cynical; a realist who nonetheless believed in the possibility--the necessity--of empathy' Independent
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