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  Jarmila: A Love Story from Bohemia (Paperback) By (author) Ernst Weiß, Translated by Rebecca Morrison, Translated by Petra Howard-Wuerz

  

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  Short Description for JarmilaThe wife of the far older feather-merchant, Jarmila enjoys all the pleasures her husband's wealth can buy, yet still longs for true love. Set in the idyllic landscape of rural Bohemia in the 1930s, this is the love story of Jarmila, the village beauty, and a toy maker who falls under her siren spell.
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  • Publisher: PUSHKIN PRESS
  • Published: 27 February 2006
  • Format: Paperback 128 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9781901285291 ISBN 10: 1901285294
  • Sales rank: 437,300

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• Set in the idyllic landscape of rural Bohemia in the 1930s, this is the tragic love story of Jarmila, the village beauty, and a toy maker who falls under her siren spell. The wife of the far older local feather-merchant, Jarmila enjoys all the pleasures her husband's wealth can buy, yet still longs for true love which she hopes to find in her affair with the penniless toy-maker. When she conceives a child by him, he urges her to leave her husband for a life of love and freedom in New York. Guilt-ridden and suddenly facing a destitute life in a strange country, Jarmila refuses lo leave. Her devastated lover asks for one more meeting and tragedy ensues. The typescript of this novella was discovered recently at Prague University. Stefan Zweig, a friend of Ernst Weiss, believed it to be Weiss' best work.