Description: Joseph Roth's sensibility--both clear-eyed and nostalgic, harshly realistic and tenderly humane--produced some of the most distinctive fiction of the twentieth century. This collection of his most essential stories, in new translations by Ruth Martin, showcases the range and power of his short stories and novellas.
Review Quotes: 'One of the greatest writers of the first half of the tormented 20th century' -- Simon Schama, Financial Times
'Roth is Austria's Chekhov'--William Boyd 'Joseph Roth is counted among the great novelists of the twentieth century'--TLS'What Roth sees and hands on is a unique essence, conveying the fragility of what is truly human in us, the ridiculous and the tragic' -- Nadine Gordimer