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Informationen zum Autor Laurent Seksik trained as a doctor! was a radiologist in a Paris hospital and continues to practise medicine alongside his work as a writer. Before The Last Days (2010) he published Les Mauvaises Pensées (1999! translated into ten languages)! La Folle Histoire (2004! awarded the Littré Prize) and several other books! including a biography of Albert Einstein. The Last Days was a bestseller in France and has been translated into ten languages. The novel has been adapted for the stage into a very successful play! and a film version is currently in production. Seksik lives and works in Paris Klappentext A beautiful and moving fictionalised account of the final months of Stefan Zweig and his wife Lotte, before their tragic double suicide in Brazil in 1942. "A novel of a staggering beauty. We see into the inconsolable soul of the great humanist, become a pariah."-- "Le Nouvel Observateur" "A marvel, which will enchant all lovers of Zweig."-- "Le Figaro" This tragedy-Racine transplanted to the twentieth century-is told with talent by Laurent Seksik. -- "Livres Hebdo" "Laurent Seksik recounts this tragedy with a stunning gentleness" "Le Point" A beautiful and moving fictionalised account of the final months of Stefan Zweig and his wife Lotte, before their tragic double suicide in Brazil in 1942. Zusammenfassung A beautiful and moving fictionalised account of the final months of Stefan Zweig and his wife Lotte! before their tragic double suicide in Brazil in 1942.
