The fate of a woman… And the turbulence of an age.

Christine Hoflehner is a young post office clerk struggling to survive in a small town in Austria. In an unexpected twist of fate, he finds himself in the glittering hotels of the Swiss Alps, in the false paradise of the aristocracy. This brief taste of glamor brings her a new name, Christiane van Boolen, and an intoxication of self-confidence.

But like any intoxication, it ends with a bitter awakening. When Christine returns, she can no longer fit into her old life. As she struggles to cope with the emptiness left by luxury and compliments, she crosses paths with the war-torn Ferdinand. The only thing that keeps them both alive is their despair and anger at the system.

In The Wind of Change, Stefan Zweig reveals the shocking anatomy of dreams of class advancement, social rifts and identity crises. Christine’s story, which oscillates between luxury and poverty, hope and despair, is not only a personal drama but also a mirror of the mood of an era.

And perhaps the most moving: This is a novel that Zweig left unfinished. The Wind of Change carries the power of a completed novel even with its unfinished sentences, because Zweig’s words prove how deep, how human even unfinished things can be.

An unfinished novel… But a complete human story.