After serving with the Bolsheviks and enduring imprisonment in Siberia, an ex-officer of the Austro-Hungarian army returns to Austria to find himself out of kilt with the new order and consigned to a life of cultural isolation and exile.
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'A concise, powerful writer who brilliantly evokes the social, political and intellectual turmoil of the era' -- Publishers Weekly
'A novelist whose major novels deserve a wide readership' -- Sunday Times
'A very fine writer indeed' -- Angela Carter, Guardian
'Almost perfect' -- Rolling Stone
Joseph Roth was born in 1894 in a small Galician town on the eastern borders of the Hapsburg Empire. After serving in the Austro-Hungarian army from 1916 to 1918, he worked as a journalist in Vienna and in Berlin. He died in Paris in 1939, leaving behind thirteen novels as well as many stories and essays.
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