{"product_id":"9781590172001","title":"Beware of Pity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWes Anderson on Stefan Zweig:\u003c\/b\u003e  \"I had never heard of Zweig...when    I just more or less by chance bought a copy of \u003ci\u003eBeware of Pity\u003c\/i\u003e. I loved this    first book.  I also read    the \u003ci\u003eThe Post-Office\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eGirl\u003c\/i\u003e.  \u003ci\u003eThe Grand Budapest Hotel\u003c\/i\u003e has elements that were sort of stolen    from both these books. Two characters in our story are vaguely meant to    represent Zweig himself — our “Author” character, played by Tom Wilkinson,    and the theoretically fictionalised version of himself, played by Jude Law.    But, in fact, M. Gustave, the main character who is played by Ralph Fiennes,    is modelled significantly on Zweig as well.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Stefan Zweig was a dark and unorthodox artist; it's good to have him back.\"--Salman  Rushdie\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe great Austrian writer Stefan Zweig was a master anatomist of the deceitful  heart, and Beware of Pity,  the only novel he published during his lifetime, uncovers  the seed of selfishness within even the finest of feelings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHofmiller, an Austro-Hungarian  cavalry officer stationed at the edge of the empire, is invited to a party at the  home of a rich local landowner, a world away from the dreary routine of the barracks.  The surroundings are glamorous, wine flows freely, and the exhilarated young Hofmiller  asks his host's lovely daughter for a dance, only to discover that sickness has left  her painfully crippled. It is a minor blunder that will destroy his life, as pity  and guilt gradually implicate him in a well-meaning but tragically wrongheaded plot  to restore the unhappy invalid to health.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stefan Zweig","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":45892909465812,"sku":"9781590172001","price":24.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/9208\/files\/BNCImageAPI_71eeb815-f352-4296-886f-67630e019f9f.jpg?v=1732407063","url":"https:\/\/penguinshop.ca\/products\/9781590172001","provider":"Penguin Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}