VI BEHÖVER INTE VARA RÄDDA – NO NEED TO FEAR
By Elin Grelsson
A gripping documentary novel about Lotte and Stefan Zweig.
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.
ABOUT THE BOOK
First published by Natur & Kultur, Sweden 2026
RIGHTS SOLD TO
Croatia, Neolit
Sweden, Natur & Kultur
REVIEWS
[…] Elin Grelsson paints a credible and empathetic psychological portrait of a woman who is constantly battling her growing fear.
– Dagens Nyheter
The prose is beautiful in its simplicity, both rich in detail and evocative. The sentences are short, and the third-person narrative stays very close to the protagonist, keeping pace with the sudden flights of her imagination. […] Grelsson’s character is psychologically believable.
– Expressen
Elin Grelsson’s writing truly shows care for the reader, without a hint of condescension. On the contrary, she writes simply and precisely; the pace is calm, and as a reader one feels completely at ease, with plenty of scope to form one’s own observations. […] Her trust in the reader impresses me.
– Göteborgs-Posten
An intimate and tender exploration of love, hope and sorrow.
– Femina
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