by Stefan Zweig · Editorial Alma · tapa dura · ISBN 9788418933547
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Jakob Mendel is a traveling bookseller who practices his profession within cafes throughout Vienna at the beginning of the 20th century. Endowed with a prodigious memory, he is capable of reciting entire compendiums of titles, authors, dates, and editions to everyone who comes to consult him. He lived oblivious to the world beyond the pages of his books until the Great War broke out in 1914 and he was interned in a concentration camp. Upon returning to Vienna once the war was over, nothing is as it was. This moving story is Zweig's best tribute to the world of books and booksellers.
Stefan Zweig was an Austrian writer. At the height of his literary career in the 1920s and 1930s, he was one of the most widely translated and popular writers in the world.
