The Radetzky March

Roth's masterpiece: an epic, moving account of the final days of the Austro-Hungarian empire, told through the fortunes of one family.

About the author

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 Austro-Hungarian Empire. Born into a Jewish family in Galicia, on the eastern edge of the empire, he was a prolific political journalist and novelist. On Hitler's assumption of power, he was obliged to leave Germany for Paris, where he died in poverty a few years later. His books include What I Saw, Job, The White Cities, The String of Pearls, The Emperor's Tomb and The Radetzky March, all published by Granta Books.Michael Hofmann is a poet and German translator. His most recent collection of poems is One Lark, One Horse. He is a Granta contributing editor.

Summary

Roth's masterpiece: an epic, moving account of the final days of the Austro-Hungarian empire, told through the fortunes of one family.

Product details

• Authors: Joseph Roth, Roth Joseph
• Assisted by: Michael Hofmann (Translation), Hofmann Michael (Translation)
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2022
• EAN: 9781783788453
• ISBN: 978-1-78378-845-3
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 25 mm x 199 mm
• Weight: 277 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / General, Historical fiction, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), 20th Century, Fiction in translation, First World War fiction, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Classic fiction: general and literary