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'One of the greatest writers of the first half of the tormented 20th century' - Simon Schama
'An almost perfect book' Rolling Stone
At the close of the Great War, a captured Austrian soldier escapes Siberia and sets off in search of his fiancée, her photograph sewn into the lining of his coat. But the old order has vanished, and he is swept along on the current of revolution: first surrendering to his love for a Red Army beauty, then drifting phantom-like through Europe's cities.
Here Joseph Roth tells one of his most personal stories - that of a man cast adrift in a changed world.
Part of the Pushkin Press Classics series: timeless storytelling by icons of literature, hand-picked from around the globe.
Translated by David Le Vay and Beatrice Musgrave.
JOSEPH ROTH (1894-1939) was born into a Jewish family in the small town of Brody in the former Austro-Hungarian Empire. He studied first in Lemberg and then in Vienna, a
