Synopses & Reviews
A continuation of the saga of the von Trotta family from The Radetzky March, it is both a powerful and moving look at a decaying society and its journey through the War and its devastating aftermath, and the story of the erosion of one man's desperate faith in the virtues of a simple life.
Synopsis
Joseph Roth's The Emperor's Tomb is a continuation of the saga of the von Trotta family from The Radetzky March. This novel presents both a powerful, moving look at a decaying society and its journey through World War I and its devastating aftermath, and a story of the erosion of one man's desperate faith in the virtues of a simple life.
"Roth details without pity the inner life of the authentic self." --New York Times
Synopsis
is a nostalgic, haunting elegy for the end of youth and the last days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
About the Author
Joseph Roth was born in 1894 in a small Galician town on the eastern borders of the Hapsburg Empire. After serving in the Austro-Hungarian army from 1916 to 1918, he worked as a journalist in Vienna and in Berlin. He died in Paris in 1939, leaving behind thirteen novels as well as many stories and essays.