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Irene Wagner lleva una vida tranquila y acomodada. Feliz esposa de un acaudalado abogado y madre de dos hijos, en una velada ocasional conoce a un pianista de renombre y se convierte en su amante más por aburrimiento que por deseo. El terror de que su marido descubra su aventura y que su felicidad doméstica se derrumbe convierte la plácida existencia de Irene en un tormento insoportable. Zweig explora de nuevo los entresijos del alma humana en este relato fascinante que atrapa al lector en el torbellino de emociones de la protagonista desde la primera página hasta la última.



Irene Wagner leads a quiet and comfortable life. Happy spouse of a wealthy lawyer and mother of two children, on an occasional evening she meets a renowned pianist and becomes his lover more out of boredom than desire. The terror of her husband discovering her affair and her domestic happiness collapsing turns Irene's placid existence into an unbearable torment. Zweig explores again the intricacies of the human soul in this fascinating story that traps the reader in the whirlwind of emotions of the protagonist from the first page to the last.

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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)