Elin Grelsson is back with a new book, a gripping documentary novel about Lotte and Stefan Zweig.
Elin Grelsson
We are in England, 1939. Jewish refugee Lotte Altmann, 31, has just married world-famous author Stefan Zweig. After several years as his secretary and lover, they are finally about to start their life together. But at the same time, the Second World War breaks out. The war and the persecution of Jews are drawing ever closer, and the cosmopolitan dream of a free world is becoming increasingly distant.
No Need To Fear depicts, from Lotte’s perspective, the first years of the war with Zweig, first in Britain, then in the United States, and finally in Brazil, where they end their lives in 1942. It is a novel about exile and persecution and about living in uncertain times of war, but also about love and who we become to each other when everything is about to be lost.
The novel is published by Natur & Kultur in Sweden.
