Description
BURNING SECRET is set in an Austrian sanatorium in the 1920's. A lonely twelve-year-old boy is befriended and becomes infatuated by a suave and mysterious baron who heartlessly brushes him aside to turn his seductive attentions to the boy's mother. Stefan Zweig, the author of Beware of Pity and Confusion provides the reader, in this newly available translation, with a study of childhood on the brink of adolescence and a boy's uncontrollable jealousy and feelings of betrayal.
Book Details
Format
Kindle
Pages
129 pages
Language
English
Published
Mar 28, 2008
Publisher
Pushkin Press
Editions
12 editions
ISBN-10
1906548552
ISBN-13
9781906548551