The Emperor’s Tomb

Die Joseph-Roth-Titel unserer Paperback-Reihe jetzt neu gestaltet: Die Geschichte von der 1002. NachtJoseph Roth, einer der bedeutendsten Schriftsteller des 20. Jahrhunderts, erlangte Weltruhm mit seinen Romanen Hiob und Radetzkymarsch. Von der Vielfalt, dem Reichtum und der Kraft seines Erzahlens zeugt auch: Die Geschichte von der 1002. Nacht erzahlt, wie Mizzi Schinagl im Wien des 19. Jahrhunderts fur eine Nacht die Geliebte des Schahs von Persien wird und dafur bust.

Die Joseph-Roth-Titel unserer Paperback-Reihe jetzt neu gestaltet:TarabasJoseph Roth, einer der bedeutendsten Schriftsteller des 20. Jahrhunderts, erlangte Weltruhm mit seinen Romanen Hiob und Radetzkymarsch. Von der Vielfalt, dem Reichtum und der Kraft seines Erzahlens zeugt auch: Tarabas ist die Geschichte eines in die Irre gehenden und wieder heimkehrenden Sohnes. Der Held des Romans, Sprossling einer reichen russischen Familie, wird als junger Revolutionar inhaftiert und geht nach seiner...

The Radetsky March is subtle and touching study of family life at the end of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Writing in the traditional form of the family saga, Roth nevertheless manages to bring to his story a completely individual manner which gives at the same time the detailed and intimate portrait of a life and the wider panorama of a failing dynasty. Not yet well known in English-speaking countries, Joseph Roth is one of the most distinguished Austrian writers of our century, worthy to be...

At the end of the Great War, Andreas Pum has lost a leg but at least he has a medal and a barrel-organ which he plays on the streets of Vienna. At first the simple-minded veteran is satisfied with his lot, and he even finds an ample widow to marry. But then a public quarrel with a respectable citizen on a tram turns Andreas's life onto a rapid downward trajectory. As he loses first his beggar's permit, then his new wife, and even his freedom, he is finally provoked into rejecting his...

Strauss's Radetzky March, signature tune of one of Europe's most powerful regimes, presides over Joseph Roth's account of three generations of the Trotta family in the years preceding the Austro-Hungarian collapse in 1918. Grandfather, son and grandson are equally dependent on the empire: the first for his enoblement; the second for the civil virtues that make him a meticulous servant of an administration whose failure he can neither comprehend nor survive; the third for the...

‘Many years ago there lived in Zuchnow, in Russia, a man named Mendel Signer. He was pious, God-fearing and ordinary, an entirely commonplace Jew…’ So Roth begins his novel about the loss of faith and the experience of suffering. His modern Job goes through his trials in the ghettos of Tsarist Russia and on the unforgiving streets of New York. Mendel Singer loses his family, falls terribly ill and is badly abused. He needs a miracle…