Right And Left

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Set in Berlin in the 1920s, Right and Left charts the rivalry of the two sons of a wealthy banker, one of them an early convert to fascism. It is a brilliant evocation of Berlin before the rise of Nazism; a society on the brink of disintegration.

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What Roth sees and hands on is a unique essence, conveying the fragility of what is truly human in us, the ridiculous and the tragic.(Nadine Gordimer, "The Threepenny Review")
What Roth sees and hands on is a unique essence, conveying the fragility of what is truly human in us, the ridiculous and the tragic. (Nadine Gordimer, "The Threepenny Review")
aWhat Roth sees and hands on is a unique essence, conveying the fragility of what is truly human in us, the ridiculous and the tragic.a(Nadine Gordimer, "The Threepenny Review")
"What Roth sees and hands on is a unique essence, conveying the fragility of what is truly human in us, the ridiculous and the tragic."

Author Bio

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 and he died in poverty in Paris. His novels include What I Saw, The Legend of the Holy Drinker, Right and Left, The Emperor's Tomb, The String of Pearls and The Radetzky March, all published by Granta Books. Michael Hofmann is a poet. He has translated the works of many writers, including Brecht, Kafka, Fallada and Roth. He teaches at the University of Florida in Gainesville.