A taut fable and one of Roth's most acclaimed novels, which follows pious and god-fearing Job from the ghettos of Tsarist Russia to the unforgiving streets of New York.
JOSEPH ROTH (1894-1939) was a prolific journalist and novelist. One
of the greatest writers of the 20th Century, his work traces the
decline of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the rising fascist
threat in Europe. 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 and The Radetzky March, all published by Granta
Books.
MICHAEL HOFMANN is the highly acclaimed translator of Joseph Roth,
Franz Kafka, Hans Fallada, Bertolt Brecht, and many more. A poet
and essayist, he also teaches at the University of Florida.
Extraordinary... A powerful work by a titan of early 20th-century
literature
*Herald*
[A] tender fable.... Dorothy Thompson's translation is
enthralling
*Independent*
One of the great European novelists of the century
*Sunday Times*
Roth... can pack more into a few pages than lesser writers can do
in a few hundred. But his lightness of touch has a deceptive
historical weight
*Times Literary Supplement*
Roth is one of those rare and welcome talents whose concision and
deceptive simplicity send the cogs of the imagination whizzing into
overdrive
*Sunday Telegraph*
Enthralling... Roth's most perfect book
*Independent*
One of the great writers of the century
*The Times*
'It is not possible to do justice to Job's poetic subtlety, but I
can vouch for its extraordinary merits
*Thomas Mann*
Roth's philosophical acuity is matched by his deep compassion for
the frailty of the human condition
*Sunday Times*
There are some books that seem sacrosanct and one of them is
Job
*Independent*
Roth, above all, is a consistently magnificent writer of prose
*Guardian*
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