The Emperor's Tomb

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 and he died in poverty in Paris. His novels include What I Saw, The Legend of the Holy Drinker, Right and Left, The Emperor's Tomb, The String of Pearls and The Radetzky March, all published by Granta Books.Michael Hofmann is a poet. He has translated the works of many writers, including Brecht, Kafka, Fallada and Roth. He teaches at the University of Florida in Gainesville.

Product details

• Authors: Joseph Roth
• Assisted by: Michael Hofman (Translation), Michael Hofmann (Translation)
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2022
• EAN: 9781783788507
• ISBN: 978-1-78378-850-7
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 151 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); HISTORY / Europe / Germany, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary