The Post Office Girl

Download or read book The Post Office Girl written by Stefan Zweig and published by Sort of Books. This book was released on 2011-08-18 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the 1930s. Christine, a young Austrian woman whose family has been impoverished by the war, toils away in a provincial post office. Out of the blue, a telegram arrives from an American aunt she's never known, inviting her to spend two weeks in a Grand Hotel in a fashionable Swiss resort. She accepts and is swept up into a world of almost inconceivable wealth and unleashed desire, where she allows herself to be utterly transformed. Then, just as abruptly, her aunt cuts her loose and she has to return to the post office, where - yes - nothing will ever be the same.