The String of Pearls - Couverture souple

Roth, Joseph

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 186207254X ISBN 13 : 9781862072541

Editeur : Granta Books, 1999

Synopsis

While visiting Vienna, the Shah of Persia falls for a beautiful countess. The Austrian officials arrange for him to spend the night with the "countess", but unbeknown to the Shah she is a prostitute who merely resembles the countess. From this night follows a chain of ruinous consequences.

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À propos des auteurs

Joseph Roth (1894-1939) was the great elegist of the cosmopolitan, tolerant and doomed Central European culture that flourished in the dying days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Born into a Jewish family in Galicia, on the eastern edge of the empire, he was a prolific political journalist and novelist. 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, The Emperor's Tomb and The Radetzky March, all published by Granta Books.

Michael Hofmann is a poet and German translator. His most recent collection of poems is One Lark, One Horse. He is a Granta contributing editor.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Granta Books
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 186207254X
• ISBN 13: 9781862072541
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
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