Synopses & Reviews
Upon his return to Europe from fighting on the eastern front in World War I, Franz Tunda finds that the old order is gone and Europe has changed utterly. Disillusioned by the new ideologies, he is the archetypal modern man taken up by the currents of history.
Synopsis
"A small, almost perfect book." -Rolling Stone
About the Author
'Joseph Roth was born in 1894 in Galicia. He worked as a journalist following World War I and died in Paris in 1939, leaving behind thirteen novels as well as many stories and essays. Overlook will continue its Joseph Roth program with uniform editions of Right and Left/Legend of the Holy Drinker, The Spider\'s Web/Zipper and his Father, and Hotel Savoy.'