The Emperor's Tomb

By Joseph Roth
Translated by Joan Hoare

One of Joseph Roth's greatest achievements, The Emperor's Tomb is a nostalgic, haunting elegy for the end of youth and the last days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. A continuation of the saga of the von Trotta family from The Radetzky March, it is both a powerful and moving look at a decaying society and its journey through the War and its devastating aftermath and the story of the erosion of one man's desperate faith in the virtues of a simple life.

Joseph Roth was born in 1894, in a small Galician town on the eastern borders if the Hapsburg Empire. After serving in the Austro-Hungarian army from 1916 to 1918, he worked as a journalist in Vienna and in Berlin. He died in Paris in 1939, leaving behind him thirteen novels as well as many stories and essays.

Paperback
124 Pages
Overlook press
ISBN 9781585673278