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The Hotel Years
Wanderings in Europe between the Wars
By: Joseph Roth, Michael Hofmann (Translator)
Paperback | 7 January 2022
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'A hugely significant and wonderfully haunting collection' - William Boyd
In the 1920s and 30s, Joseph Roth travelled extensively in Europe, leading a peripatetic life living in hotels and writing about the towns through which he passed. Incisive, nostalgic, curious and sharply observed - and collected together here for the first time - his pieces paint a picture of a continent racked by change yet clinging to tradition. From the 'compulsive' exercise regime of the Albanian army, the rickety industry of the new oil capital of Galicia, and ''split and scalped'' houses of Tirana forced into modernity, to the individual and idiosyncratic characters that Roth encounters in his hotel stays, these tender and quietly dazzling vignettes form a series of literary postcards written from a bygone world, creeping towards world war.
About the Author
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.
Industry Reviews
'This wonderful selection of journalism from the Weimar years, a period Roth spent in Paris, Germany and on the road, displays his genius from every angle, as a rebel, a loyalist and a man of compassion. It has been translated by Michael Hofmann, whose ear seems so faultless that you feel in reading his work that you have not been reading a translation at all' - Jan Morris, Daily Telegraph
ISBN: 9781783788477
ISBN-10: 178378847X
Published: 7th January 2022
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 288
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: Granta
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 1.9 x 12.9 x 19.7
Weight (kg): 0.21
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