Coral Merchant - Essential Stories

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.

About the author

Joseph Roth was born into a Jewish family in the small town of Brody in the former Austro-Hungarian Empire. He studied first in Lemberg and then in Vienna, and served in the Austrian army during World War I. He went on to work as a journalist, travelling widely, staying in hotels and living out of suitcases, while also being a prolific writer of fiction, including the novels Job (1930) and The Radetzky March (1932). Roth left Germany when Hitler came to power in 1933 and settled in Paris, where he died in 1939.

Summary

New translations of the greatest short stories by Joseph Roth, collected in a beautiful edition.

Product details

• Authors: Joseph Roth
• Assisted by: Ruth Martin (Translation), Martin Ruth (Translation)
• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9781782275978
• ISBN: 978-1-78227-597-8
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Pushkin Collection; Essential Stories
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Belletristik: allgemein und literarisch, Belletristik: Erzählungen, Kurzgeschichten, Short Stories, FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Short Stories, Fiction - General, Classic fiction: general and literary