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It's the summer of 1936, and copy writer Stefan Zweig is within problems. His German publisher no longer wants him, his relationship is collapsing, and his home in Austria has been seized. He's been fantasizing of Ostend, the Belgian beach town. So he journeys there with his new fan, Lotte Altmann, and reunites with his semiestranged fellow copy writer and good friend, Joseph Roth. For a moment they develop a fragile heaven. But as Europe begins to crumble around them, the authors find themselves trapped on holiday, in exile, watching the world lose. In Ostend, Volker Weidermann lyrically recounts the summer before the dark, whenever a group found themselves in limbo while Europe teetered on the edge of fascism and total conflict.