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In 19th Century Austria, a peasant is ennobled for saving the emperor's life. His son further elevates the family's name by becoming a civil servant, but the grandson brings it back to square one with gambling and debauchery. A new translation of a classic.
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Translated from German, a novel portraying the post-WW1 decline of Viennese society from a "twentieth-century master of the quixotic and melancholy." (Publishers Weekly)
The Emperor's Tomb – the last novel Joseph Roth wrote – is a haunting elegy to the vanished world of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Running from 1913 to 1938, from the eve of one world war to the eve of the next, the novel continues the saga of the von Trotta family from The...
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El protagonista de 'La Cripta de los Capuchinos', heredero de una familia de origen humilde ennoblecida por Francisco José, describe su vida en la Viena deslumbrante de los albores de la Primera Guerra Mundial. A los últimos estertores del imperio de los Habsburgo siguen los días trágicos de la guerra y de una posguerra gris y violenta. Antes de que los nazis entren en Viena, el joven Trotta, símbolo de un mundo en declive, baja a la cripta a...
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