<![CDATA[The Post-Office Girl]]>

false <![CDATA[The Post-Office Girl]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256130128m/2376087.jpg 2376087 3 The post-office girl is Christine, who looks after her ailing mother and toils in a provincial Austrian post office in the years just after the Great War. One afternoon, as she is dozing among the official forms and stamps, a telegraph arrives addressed to her. It is from her rich aunt, who lives in America and writes requesting that Christine join her and her husband in a Swiss Alpine resort. After a dizzying train ride, Christine finds herself at the top of the world, enjoying a life of privilege that she had never imagined. But Christine’s aunt drops her as abruptly as she picked her up, and soon the young woman is back at the provincial post office, consumed with disappointment and bitterness. Then she meets Ferdinand, a wounded but eloquent war veteran who is able to give voice to the disaffection of his generation. Christine’s and Ferdinand’s lives spiral downward, before Ferdinand comes up with a plan which will be either their salvation or their doom. Stefan Zweig worked on The Post Office Girl, originally published as Rausch der Verwandlung in 1982, in intervals for more than twenty years. The manuscript of the book was found completed and awaiting only minor revisions after his suicide in 1941. Never before published in English, this extraordinary book is an unexpected and haunting foray into noir fiction by one of the masters of the psychological novel. 2382997 1999 The Post-Office Girl total:108|5:38|4:44|3:24|2:2|1:0| 108 442 250 43 4 1 false false Sat Jun 20 03:19:42 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 21 09:09:18 -0700 2009 The Radetzky March. And how much...more...]]> 5 2 false true Fri Nov 07 11:52:50 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 05 22:23:36 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false true Sat Dec 06 00:21:29 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 06 00:36:48 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Mar 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 13 11:39:42 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 18 10:19:23 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Nov 22 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 14 13:25:52 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 22 09:27:41 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 21 00:32:28 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 21 00:41:01 -0700 2009 T...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Aug 01 04:19:10 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 02:01:29 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Dec 13 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 02 20:19:20 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 13 09:40:39 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jul 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 19:29:31 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 02 10:33:24 -0800 2009
I bought it on a whim in one of the few bookstores in Mexico City which had books in English. Since I had little time nor inclination to read in Mexico, it took me a month to finally pick it up and read it. And wow.

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Zweig has an amazing skill to penetrate the character’s soul, to capture every feeling, every thought, every breath!

I was BLOWN away by his psychoanalytical skills when I read his other novel: “Beware of Pity”, whose main character w...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Nov 15 20:11:02 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 15 20:46:29 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jun 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 01 06:35:48 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 09 08:21:22 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Feb 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat May 09 10:10:22 -0700 2009 Sat May 09 10:13:50 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Feb 05 04:59:12 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 05:40:59 -0800 2009
аз имам точно две български издания и двете носят свое си индивидуално заглавие: 'опиянението от промяната' и 'омаята н...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Aug 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 21 16:47:09 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 28 18:24:11 -0700 2009
Did I mention my affection for post offices? W...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Sep 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 23 12:25:27 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 23 12:34:11 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Aug 25 08:40:17 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 09 07:12:18 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jan 25 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 22 16:08:42 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 28 18:41:52 -0800 2009 The Post Office Girl by Stefan Zweig, translated from the German by Joel Rotenberg.

More of a social commentary on post-WWI life in Europe than I expected. A dark, but enlightening read with a surprise ending.

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