The story of a Great War veteran, Andreas Pum, who lost a leg and gained a medal. He marries, plays a barrel organ, and is happy. But when he is imprisoned after a fight life seems unbearably altered. Then a chance encounter with an old comrade gives Pum a transfiguring experience of justice.
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JOSEPH ROTH (1894-1939) was the great elegist of the cosmopolitan, tolerant and doomed Central European culture that flourished in the dying days of the Austrian Empire. He wrote thirteen novels, including The Radetzky March and The String of Pearls.
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