{"product_id":"beware-of-pity","title":"Beware of Pity","description":"Stefan Zweig's tragic novel of guilt, yearning, and the danger of pity, which inspired Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Original and powerful.\" --The New York Times \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe only novel Zweig--one of the most popular authors of the 20th century--completed and published during his lifetime, Beware of Pity is a heartrending tale of unequal affection, unintended consequences, and a world falling to pieces. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1913, young second lieutenant Hofmiller discovers the terrible danger of pity. Stationed at the edge of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, he is invited to a party by a rich local landowner, who also happens to have a pretty daughter. But when Hofmiller asks the girl to dance he unleashes a fatal chain of consequences. He had no idea she was lame, and finds himself in an agony of shamed embarrassment. So begins a series of visits, motivated by pity, which relieves his guilt but gives her a dangerous glimmer of hope. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStefan Zweig's only full-length novel has inspired multiple stage adaptations and was the starting point for Wes Anderson's film The Grand Budapest Hotel. Unfolding in a breathless sweep from Hofmiller's initial mistake, it displays at full length all the psychological insight and emotional intensity known to readers of Zweig's bestselling novellas. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA century after it was first written, Beware of Pity remains a devastating depiction of the betrayal of both honour and love, realised against the background of the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the beginnings of the First World War.","brand":"Pushkin Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57602817884486,"sku":"9781805330226","price":12.39,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0852\/3081\/3510\/files\/1cbd28ddf30cd388bf795c9009832dfe5634f920a230052d1499c4faf672ec87.jpg?v=1792069054","url":"https:\/\/www.averdo.com\/en\/products\/beware-of-pity","provider":"Averdo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}