The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig.
Stefan Zweig looks back on a European world that had been transformed beyond recognition by the time he completed this memoir in 1942.
Read it for the pressure that historical rupture places on memory. It asks how to describe a vanished world without allowing nostalgia to conceal the forces that brought about its destruction.
Translated by Anthea Bell. Pushkin paperback, ISBN 9781805331155. Cover image supplied by Allen & Unwin.
