Impatience of the Heart
Editorial GRANTA BOOKS
Espanya peninsular
- Editorial GRANTA BOOKS
- ISBN13 9780141196411
- ISBN10 0141196416
- Tipus LLIBRE
- Pàgines 352
- Any Edició 2016
- Idioma Anglès
- Encuadernació Paperback
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Literatura AnglesaImpatience of the Heart
Editorial GRANTA BOOKS
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Detalls del llibre
The great Austrian writer Stefan Zweig was a master anatomist of the deceitful heart, and Impatience of the Heart, the only novel he published during his lifetime, uncovers the seed of selfishness within even the finest of feelings. Hofmiller, an Austro-Hungarian cavalry officer stationed at the edge of the empire, is invited to a party at the home of a rich local landowner, a world away from the dreary routine of the barracks. The surroundings are glamorous, wine flows freely, and the exhilarated young Hofmiller asks his host's lovely daughter for a dance, only to discover that sickness has left her painfully crippled. It is a minor blunder that will destroy his life, as pity and guilt gradually implicate him in a well-meaning but tragically wrongheaded plot to restore the unhappy invalid to health.