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Item Details
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JARMILA
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| By: |
Peter Engel, Ernst Weiss, Petra Howard-Wuerz (Trans) |
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Electronic book text |
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£6.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1908968818 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781908968814 |
| Publisher: |
PUSHKIN PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
31 January, 2013 |
| Translated from: |
German |
| Description: |
Set in the idyllic landscape of rural Bohemia in the 1930s, this is the tragic love story of Jarmila, the village beauty, and a toy maker who falls under her siren spell. |
| Synopsis: |
Set in the idyllic landscape of rural Bohemia in the 1930s, this is the tragic love story of Jarmila, the village beauty, and a toy maker who falls under her siren spell. The wife of the far older local feather-merchant, Jarmila enjoys all the pleasures her husband's wealth can buy, yet still longs for true love which she hopes to find in her affair with the penniless toy-maker. When she conceives a child by him, he urges her to leave her husband for a life of love and freedom in New York. Guilt-ridden and suddenly facing a destitute life in a strange country, Jarmila refuses lo leave. Her devastated lover asks for one more meeting and tragedy ensues. The typescript of this novella was discovered recently at Prague University. Stefan Zweig, a friend of Ernst Weiss, believed it to be Weiss' best work. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Pushkin Press |
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Non-returnable |
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