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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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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Jarmila
• Author: Ernst Weiss
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96
• EAN: 9781901285291
• ISBN: 1901285294
• ID: 05021494
• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Weight: 118 g
• Dimensions: 165 × 130 × 11 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. February 2006

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