{"title":"Joseph Roth","description":"Joseph Roth (1894-1939) was one of the most brilliant and prolific writers of the 20th century. Born into a Jewish family in Brody, on the eastern fringes of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Roth's life and work were defined by the tension between his provincial roots and the cosmopolitan centers of Vienna, Berlin, and Paris.A legendary journalist who was once the highest-paid writer in Germany, Roth is best known for his monumental family saga, The Radetzky March, and his prophetic final novel, The Emperor's Tomb. His writing--described by the Los Angeles Times as \"shattering in its simplicity\"--expertly captures the displacement of the \"homeless wanderer\" in the wake of the Great War.Forced into exile in 1933 following the rise of the Nazi party, Roth spent his final years in Paris, writing feverishly while struggling with alcoholism and poverty. He died in 1939, just months before the outbreak of World War II, leaving behind a body of work that serves as a haunting, lyrical epitaph for the lost world of Central Europe.","products":[{"product_id":"the-emperors-tomb-the-classic-sequel-to-the-radetzky-march-paperback","title":"The Emperor's Tomb: The Classic Sequel to the Radetzky March - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe haunting sequel to the masterpiece \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Radetzky March\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the sun sets on the Austro-Hungarian Empire, young Franz Ferdinand Trotta--cousin to the hero of \u003ci\u003eThe Radetzky March\u003c\/i\u003e--finds himself adrift in a world of aristocratic ease and bohemian decadence. But the year is 1913, and the grand tapestry of Imperial Vienna is about to be torn asunder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the smoke-filled cafes of a dying capital to the brutal frozen wastes of a Siberian POW camp, Trotta's journey mirrors the collapse of a civilization. Returning to a Vienna he no longer recognizes--a city of breadlines, fractured identities, and rising shadows--he must confront the ultimate erosion of his class and his country.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten in 1938 as the Nazi \"Anschluss\" loomed, Joseph Roth's final novel is a devastatingly beautiful elegy for a vanished world. It is a story of loyalty, displacement, and the heartbreaking search for a home that no longer exists. This edition preserves the celebrated John Hoare translation, capturing the \"eerie, clairvoyant\" prose of one of the 20th century's greatest writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Roth details without pity the inner life of the authentic self.\" --\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101864399071,"sku":"9781585673278","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/t45B5mo_a-9781585673278.webp?v=1781075787"},{"product_id":"weights-and-measures-paperback","title":"Weights and Measures - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"An absorbing, dark, beautifully written\" novel on the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire \"written with the melancholy wit and grace of Gogol\" (\u003ci\u003eNew Statesman, The Times\u003c\/i\u003e) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis deeply moving, deeply philosophical story set in Ukraine touches on timeless themes of uprooted identity, destiny, and loneliness \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWidely praised and rarely available in English, \u003ci\u003eWeights and Measures\u003c\/i\u003e builds on Roth's most famous work, The Radetzky March. Among his final works, this fable about the disintegration of a good man transports us back in time to Eastern Europe's borderlands in the early 20th century. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this haunting and poetic novel, scrupulous artillery officer Anselm Eibenschütz is persuaded by his wife to leave behind his job as an artilleryman in the Austro-Hungarian army and take up a civilian post as Inspector of Weights and Measures in a secluded territory near the Russian border. Once there, his discipline and quiet dignity begin to dissolve as he encounters a shadowy world of smugglers, fugitives, and runaways. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA deeply felt commentary on the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, \u003ci\u003eWeights and Measures\u003c\/i\u003e registers on both a historical and personal level to portray the slow capitulation of a good man to insidious small-time corruption and to his own destructive passion. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePart of the Pushkin Press Classics series: outstanding classic storytelling from around the world, in a stylishly original series design. From newly rediscovered gems to fresh translations of the world's greatest authors, this series includes such authors as Stefan Zweig, Hermann Hesse, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa and Gaito Gazdanov.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50103754162399,"sku":"9781805330653","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/SQ_WyLwhz9781805330653.webp?v=1781097567"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/joseph-roth.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}