{"product_id":"the-emperors-tomb-9780811221276","title":"The Emperor's Tomb","description":"\u003cem\u003eThe Emperor's Tomb\u003c\/em\u003e - 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. \u003cem\u003eThe Emperor's Tomb\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRoth, Joseph:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eJoseph Roth\u003c\/strong\u003e (1894-1939) was the great elegist of the cosmopolitan culture that flourished in the dying days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He published several books and articles before his untimely death at the age of 44. Roth's writing has been admired by J. M. Coetzee, Jeffrey Eugenides, Elie Wiesel, and Nadine Gordimer, among many others.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHofmann, Michael:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - The award-winning translator \u003cstrong\u003eMichael Hofmann\u003c\/strong\u003e has also translated works by Jenny Erpenbeck, Gert Hofmann, Franz Kafka, Heinrich von Kleist, and Joseph Roth for New Directions. His translation of \u003cem\u003eKairos\u003c\/em\u003e by Jenny Erpenbeck was awarded the International Booker Prize in 2024.","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51749294113042,"sku":"9780811221276","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f7c96284-feef-46e9-b1be-3585b6858535.jpg?v=1764075861","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-emperors-tomb-9780811221276","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}