Irene Wagner leads a quiet and comfortable life. Happy spouse of a wealthy lawyer and mother of two children, on an occasional evening she meets a renowned pianist and becomes his lover more out of boredom than desire. The terror of her husband discovering her affair and her domestic happiness collapsing turns Irene's placid existence into an unbearable torment. Zweig explores again the intricacies of the human soul in this fascinating story that traps the reader in the whirlwind of emotions of the protagonist from the first page to the last.
Paul Blow es un ilustrador afincado en Reino Unido que trabaja para una amplia variedad de clientes, como The Guardian, The Economist, New Scientist, The New York Times, Penguin Books o The Folio Society. Audaces y conceptuales, sus ilustraciones mezclan temas contemporáneos con pinceladas de humor y un sano sentido de lo absurdo.
Stefan Zweig is one of the most widely read authors of the first half of the 20th century and a fundamental figure in understanding the future of Europe between the wars. His work, which includes novels, short stories, essays, biography and poetry, is characterised by the delicacy in the description of feelings and by his firm Europeanist spirit in the face of the arrival of fascism and Stalinism.
Paul Blow is a United Kingdom-based illustrator who works for a wide variety of clients, including The Guardian, The Economist, New Scientist, The New York Times, Penguin Books, and The Folio Society. Bold and conceptual, his illustrations mix contemporary themes with touches of humor and a healthy sense of the absurd.