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Other Press, New York NY, 2014.. Octavo; hardcover, with silver gilt spine titling; 390pp., untrimmed, with monochrome illustrations. Minor wear. Dustwrapper. Near fine. "From his new home in the 'lush perch' of nearby Petropolis, the emigre Viennese bestseller relished the warmth, grace and tolerance of Brazil's 'new kind of civilisation', with its blessed absence of racism. Meanwhile, in the Nazi-occupied Europe that the literary superstar had fled, total war had reached its deep midnight. With his younger second wife Lotte Altmann chronically ill, his peers scattered and the 'posthumous existence' of the exile closing in, his depression deepened. A few days later, he took a fatal dose of barbiturate; Lotte followed him. Although their double suicide seemed to ratify Goebbels' grim jest about artistic emigres as 'cadavers on leave', the shock stiffened the resolve of Zweig's many friends in the anti-Hitler diaspora. The New York Times ran a heartfelt editorial: not the refugees but the Nazis, it said, were the real exiles from civilisation, 'branded with the mark of Cain'. By the end of 1942, after El Alamein and Stalingrad, a faint daybreak began. Zweig would never see that dawn. Thoughtful, evocative and quietly gripping, George Prochnik's book about Zweig's exemplary exile does not offer a cradle-to-grave biography. Oliver Matuschek, whom he fully credits, did that job superbly in 2011. Rather, The Impossible Exile braids this hugely successful writer's ordeal of dispossession and homelessness after 1934 with the trajectory of Prochnik's own family - like Zweig's, Viennese Jews who moved to the Americas. He also travels in his subject's footsteps and crafts aphorism-studded reflections on his work, life and times. If such a hybrid genre presents pitfalls for the writer, it can also deliver rich rewards. Rebecca Mead, for one, reaped them in her fine book about a lifetime's journey with George Eliot, The Road to Middlemarch. If this equally subtle blend invites that comparison, it may not be pure coincidence. George Prochnik and Rebecca Mead are husband and wife. .. Prochnik can pay homage to this big-hearted, hyper-active visionary with a 'genius for friendship' without making him the equal in exile of Thomas Mann or Sigmund Freud - whose eulogy Zweig delivered at Golders Green cemetery in 1939.Typically, it fell to Zweig - the ultimate networker and stalwart volunteer - to do the job. Up the road in Hampstead, Prochnik speaks with Lotte's niece Eva, who as a child lived with the couple. Now in her eighties, Eva can look back on a long, rich career in the health service and as a mentor for young musicians. Despairing solitude snuffed out Zweig's own hopes. Yet his books endure - re-translated recently to loud acclaim - while those he nurtured would heal a wounded world. Through the lives and minds of others, the exile rebuilt his home." - Boyd Tonkin

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The Viking Press, 1933. Hardcover. Very Good. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Hastings House, 1954. Cloth. Fine/Fair. Sturdy book, quality gray cloth, red lettering on spine very fine, note in Arabic inside front cover, blue stamp for person in Tehran inside back cover, 344 pages. DJ glossy blue background front and spine, white back lightly soiled with photo, design in black and white on front with white lettering. DJ has 3/8" tear at top front spine iindentation, rubbed at spine middle. Fair DJ/Fine book.

Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 0x0x0. The jacket is a little shelf rubbed and edge worn. It is protected in cellophane. The boards are a little rubbed. They are strong and sturdy. Internally, clean and complete. Tightly bound. [AK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Frankfurt: S. Fischer, 1956. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Pages are age toned. DJ with mylar protection.

London: Cassel and Company Limited, 1945 The dust jacket is rubbed and lightly foxed, has scuffed edges with several 2-3 tears and missing pieces as well as a clipped inside flap. The page edges are lightly foxed. 124 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.. Third Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. Size D: 7"-8" Tall (177-203mm).

London, Cassell, 1948 (2nd edition).. Octavo, viii+312pp, illustrated, original cloth boards in worn dustwrapper, foredges and endpapers foxed, a very good copy.

London: Cassell and Company Limited, 1950 Previous owner's inked name on ffep and light pencil underlining on about 20 pages, else textblock and binding is clean and tight overall. lightly rubbed and edge-worn, unclipped dust jacket. 468pp.; including index . Hallam Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good (in mylar). Illus. by Plates. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hard Cover.