The Emperor's Tomb - the last novel Joseph Roth wrote - is a haunting elegy to the vanished world of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and a magically evocative paean to the passing of time and the loss of hope. The Emperor's Tomb runs from 1913 to 1938, from the eve of one world war to the eve of the next, from disaster to disaster. Striped with beauty and written in short propulsive chapters - full of upheavals, reversals and abrupt twists of plot - the novel powerfully sketches a time of change and loss. Prophetic and regretful, intuitive and exact, Roth tells of one man's foppish, sleepwalking, spoiled youth and then his struggle to come to terms with the uncongenial society of post-First World War Vienna, financial ruin, and the first intimations of Nazi barbarities.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 04/22/2013
ISBN: 9780811221276
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.20w x 0.60d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 05/20/2013
Library Journal 06/15/2013 pg. 85