Volker Weidermann: Summer Before the Dark [2017] paperback CULTF Nigel Jones depicts every facet

Nigel Jones depicts every facet of a year that changed Britain for ever

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Volker Weidermann: Summer Before the Dark [2017] paperback CULTF Nigel Jones depicts every facetA BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week It's as if they're made for each other. Two men, both falling, but holding each other up for a time. Ostend, 1936: the Belgian seaside town is playing host to a coterie of artists, intellectuals and madmen, who find themselves in limbo while Europe gazes into an abyss of fascism and war. Among them is Stefan Zweig, a man in crisis: his German publisher has shunned him, his marriage is collapsing, his house in Austria no