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.
Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 128 ● ISBN 9781906548551 ● File size 0.2 MB ● Translator Anthea Bell ● Publisher Pushkin Press ● City London ● Country GB ● Published 2008 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 2430070 ● Copy protection Social DRM