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A young Austrian baron arrives at a luxurious spa hotel for a week's vacation. There, he meets a lady he intends to seduce. To achieve his goal, he decides to use his sickly twelve-year-old son as an intermediary. An intense triangular relationship then begins, awakening a conscience in the young boy that will forever change his relationship with his mother. A masterful tale set against the backdrop of morality, human weaknesses, and the transition from childhood to adolescence.

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Born in Vienna, the prolific Zweig was a poet in his early years. In the 1920s, he achieved fame with the many biographies he wrote of famous people including Balzac, Dostoevsky, Dickens and Freud. Erasmus with whom he closely identified, was the subject of a longer biography. He also wrote the novellas Amok (1922) and The Royal Game (1944). As Nazism spread, Zweig, a Jew, fled to the United States and then to Brazil. He hoped to start a new life there, but the haunting memory of Nazism, still undefeated, proved too much for him. He died with his wife in a suicide pact. (Bowker Author Biography)