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'A masterly performance' Evening Standard

Joseph Roth's dark fable about a man torn between resolve and restlessness in Eastern Europe's borderlands

In the twilight of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Anselm Eibenschütz is appointed inspector of weights and measures in a remote border town. There he encounters a shadowy world of gamblers and smugglers - and discovers his wife is pregnant by another man. Right and wrong prove hard to judge, as Eibenschütz is drawn into a destructive affair of his own.

In this late masterpiece, Joseph Roth depicts the slow corruption of a decent man at the lawless edge of a crumbling 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.

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

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    Publisher: Pushkin Press
    Publication Date: 10/24/2024
    ISBN13: 9781805330653, 978-1805330653
    ISBN10: 1805330659

    Fiction , Classics

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    'A masterly performance' Evening Standard

    Joseph Roth's dark fable about a man torn between resolve and restlessness in Eastern Europe's borderlands

    In the twilight of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Anselm Eibenschütz is appointed inspector of weights and measures in a remote border town. There he encounters a shadowy world of gamblers and smugglers - and discovers his wife is pregnant by another man. Right and wrong prove hard to judge, as Eibenschütz is drawn into a destructive affair of his own.

    In this late masterpiece, Joseph Roth depicts the slow corruption of a decent man at the lawless edge of a crumbling 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.

    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

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