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001 2015019901
003 DLC
005 20150528083626.0
008 150522s2016 nyu 000 0ceng
010 $a 2015019901
020 $a9781101870266 (hardback)
020 $a9781101870273 (ebook)
040 $aDLC$beng$erda$cDLC
041 1 $aeng$hger
042 $apcc
043 $ae-be---
050 00 $aPT405$b.W3513613 2015
082 00 $a838/.91209$223
084 $aBIO006000$aBIO007000$aHIS037070$2bisacsh
100 1 $aWeidermann, Volker,$d1969-
240 10 $aOstend.$lEnglish
245 10 $aOstend :$bStefan Zweig, Joseph Roth, and the summer before the dark /$cVolker Weidermann ; translated from the German by Carol Brown Janeway.
263 $a1601
264 1 $aNew York :$bPantheon,$c2016.
300 $apages cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"The true story of two of the twentieth century's great writers exiled from Nazi Germany to a Belgian seaside resort, and the world they built there: written with a novelist's eye for pacing, chronology, and language--a dazzling work of historical nonfiction. It's the summer of 1936, and the writer Stefan Zweig is in crisis. His German publisher no longer wants him, his marriage is collapsing, and his home in Austria has been seized. He's been dreaming of Ostend, the Belgian beach town--a paradise of promenades, parasols, and old friends. So he journeys there with his new lover, Lotte Altmann, and reunites with his semi-estranged fellow writer and close friend Joseph Roth, himself newly in love. For a moment, they create a fragile paradise. But as Europe begins to crumble around them, the writers find themselves trapped on vacation, in exile, watching the world burn. In Ostend, Volker Weidermann lyrically recounts "the summer before the dark," when a coterie of artists, intellectuals, drunks, revolutionaries, and madmen found themselves in limbo while Europe teetered on the edge of fascism and total war"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aAuthors, German$xHomes and haunts$zBelgium$zOstend.
650 0 $aAuthors, Austrian$xHomes and haunts$zBelgium$zOstend.
650 0 $aAuthors, Exiled$zBelgium$zOstend.
600 10 $aZweig, Stefan,$d1881-1942$xFriends and associates.
600 10 $aRoth, Joseph,$d1894-1939$xFriends and associates.
600 10 $aKeun, Irmgard,$d1905-1982$xFriends and associates.
651 0 $aOstend (Belgium)$xSocial life and customs.
650 0 $aNineteen thirty-six, A.D.
650 7 $aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary.$2bisacsh
700 1 $aJaneway, Carol Brown,$etranslator.
856 42 $3Cover image$u9781101870266.jpg