"One of those rare biographical novels that bring a whole world to life in a way that lingers in memory." This absorbing, sensitive novel portrays a famed author in a moment of crisis: an aging Hugo von Hofmannsthal returns to a summer resort outside of Salzburg that he visited as a child. But in the spa town where he once thrilled to the joys of youth, he now feels unproductive and uninspired,...
--Jay Parini, author of Borges and Me