THE LAST MIRACLE: JEWISH STORIES

Thoughtful highly observant and humane Guardian Two thousand years of human struggle Five tales of family breakdown political struggle and monomaniacal obsession from one of the defining voices of the European Jewish diaspora Moving back through time from the First World War to Ancient Rome these stories play on the tension between religion society and individual with masterful irony We encounter heroes and bookworms visionaries and gadabouts patriarchs and rebels united across the centuries by faith and by the intensity with which they live and die their individual passions blazing out against the forces of history Includes Buchmendel Downfall of the Heart The Miracles of Life In the Snow The Buried Candelabrum Part of the Pushkin Press Classics series timeless storytelling by icons of literature hand picked from around the globe Translated by Anthea Bell and Eden and Cedar Paul Stefan Zweig was born in 1881 in Vienna a member of a wealthy Austrian Jewish family He studied in Berlin and Vienna and was first known as a translator and later as a biographer Zweig travelled widely living in Salzburg between the wars and enjoying literary fame His stories and novellas were collected in 1934 In the same year with the rise of Nazism he