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A biographical literary work about the true friendship between Stefan Zweig and Joseph Roth. Ostend is located on the west coast of Belgium and is a famous resort and health resort in Europe. On the eve of World War II, fascism prevailed in Europe, and in the summer of 1936 before darkness fell, many exiled writers, publishers, artists, and intellectuals who were persecuted by the German Nazis gathered in Ostend, forming a unique cultural circle of exiled writers, who continued to create before darkness fell. "Ostend 1936", in the form of a memoir and novel, focuses on the real-life friendship between Stefan Zweig and Joseph Roth, two well-known novelists in the literary world who were exiled here at the time. The book also intersperses other writers such as Ernst Toller. Looking back on their years in exile, they recount their love and hope, pain and despair. This is a great story about love and friendship.

This is a biographical work that compiles and records the works and lives of writers whose books were burned during the "Book Burning Incident" of the German Nazis. In May 1933, the German Nazis burned the works of 94 German-speaking writers and 37 non-German-speaking writers in Berlin, and launched a book burning campaign across the country, burning tens of thousands of books. Volker Weidmann re-interviewed and collected information on the book-burning writers, and sorted out the appearance of their works and life experiences through various clues. The writers involved include literary giants such as Stefan Zweig, Joseph Rotter, Brecht, Thomas Mann, Remarque, and many more writers who have disappeared into the fog of history.