A short, brilliantly evocative novel set in the bleak eastern European borderlands before the First World War.
Joseph Roth was born in 1894 into a Jewish family living in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, part of the Austro-Hungarian empire and now split between Poland and Ukraine. He became a successful journalist and travelled widely, eventually becoming best-known for his novels The Radetzky March (also in Penguin Modern Classics), The Emperor's Tomb and The Legend of the Holy Drinker . He died in Paris in 1939.
This small novel is a masterpiece
*Listener*
Weights and Measures gave me the purest reading pleasure... A
haunting little book, touched by genius
*Guardian*
A masterly performance
*Evening Standard*
An absorbing fable, dark, beautifully written and with a physical
immediacy in the prose... I want to read more
*New Statesman*
Written with the melancholy wit and grace of Gogol... passages of
electrifying beauty
*The Times*
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