Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman
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The dramatic disappearance of the wife of a wealthy businessman from a small hotel on the French Riviera prompts a distinguished English widow to recount her fleeting encounter with a young aristocrat many years before in Monte Carlo. Impulsively following the broken man as he stumbles from the roulette table, she embarks on twenty-four hours of ecstasy, redemption and betrayal which will haunt her life forever.
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A group of friends rented a house for vacations on the French Riviera. One day, a French tourist join them. The next day, Madame Henriette is gone. She left a note: she run away with the French man, leaving her husband and her kids behind. After the shock of the news, the group of friends gather, exchange opinions, and then quietly go back to their respective rooms. An old women, then, feels the need to confess a story that happened to her two decades ago: the story of 24 hours of the life of a woman.
I absolutely adored this novella. I was even refraining myself from not just just spending my full day listening to it. Stephan Zweig has such a incredible talent to describe life: the animation of hands, the micro-expressions of faces, the burst of a new emotion...
My first book from Stefan Zweig. Definitively not my last one.
Audiobook read in French by Isabelle Carré via Librivox.
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