Stefan's Zweig's Beware of Pity is an almost unbearably tense & powerful tale of unrequited love & the danger of pity The famous novel is published by Pushkin Press in a cloth bound hardback beautifully designed by Nathan Burton & translated by the award-winning Anthea Bell In 1913 a young second lieutenant discovers the terrible danger of pity He had no idea the girl was lame when he asked her to dance his compensatory afternoon calls relieve his guilt but give her a dangerous glimmer of hope Stefan Zweig's only novel is a devastating depiction of the torment of the betrayal of both honour & love realised against the background of the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian Empire ' Beware of Pity is the most exciting book I have ever reada feverish fascinating novel'
- Anthony Beevor Sunday Telegraph The novel I'll really remember reading this year is Stefan Zweig's frighteningly gripping Beware of Pity first published in 1939 & part of the ongoing valiant reprinting by Pushkin Press of Zweig's collected oeuvre; an intoxicating morally shaking read about human responsibilities & a real reminder of what fiction can do best'- Ali Smith TLS Book of the Year 2008 ' An unremittingly tense parable about emotional blackmail this is a book which turns every reader into a fanatic'
- Julie Kavanagh Intelligent Life (The Economist)' It's just a masterpiece When I read it I thought how is it that I don't already knowabout this?' Wes Anderson' 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 & which similarly could pluck his name out of a dusty obscurity' Simon Winchester Telegraph' Zweig's single greatest work' The Times' Zweig's fictional masterpiece' Guardian' Originaland powerful' New York Times Translated from the German by Anthea Bell Stefan Zweig's Beware of Pity is published by Pushkin Press Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was born in Vienna into a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family He studied in Berlin & Vienna & was first known as a poet & translator then as a biographer Zweig travelled widely living in Salzburg between the wars & was an international bestseller with a string of hugely popular novellas including Letter from an Unknown Woman Amok & Fear In 1934 with the rise of Nazism he moved to London where he wrote his only novel Beware of Pity He later moved on to Bath taking British citizenship after the outbreak of the Second World War With the fall of France in 1940 Zweig left Britain for New York before settling in Brazil where in 1942 he & his wife were found dead in an apparent double suicide Much of his work is available from Pushkin Press

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