The post-office girl /

Zweig, Stefan, 1881-1942.

The post-office girl / Stefan Zweig ; translated from the German by Joel Rotenberg with an afterword by William Deresiewicz. - London : Sort Of Books, 2009. - 265 p. ; 20 cm.

This translation originally published: New York: New York Review, 2008. Formerly CIP.

The post-office girl is Christine, who looks after her ailing mother and toils in a provincial Austrian post office in the years just after the Great War. One afternoon, as she is dozing among the official forms and stamps, a telegraph arrives addressed to her. It is from her rich aunt, who lives in America.

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Women postal service employees--Austria--Fiction.
Women postal service employees--Family relationships--Austria--Fiction.
Veterans--Austria--Fiction.


Austria--Social life and customs--Fiction.


Noir fiction.

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