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'Every man had not only a weak spot but also a criminal one' At his wife's insistence, upstanding citizen and artillery officer Anselm Eibenschütz leaves his beloved Austro-Hungarian army and takes up a civilian post, as Inspector of Weights and Measures in a remote backwater near the Russian border. At first he does everything by the book, but gradually he finds himself adrift in a world of petty corruption, bribery and drunkenness - and undone by his passion for the beautiful gypsy Euphemia. A haunting evocation of Eastern Europe's borderlands in the early twentieth century, Weights and Measures is also the story of the disintegration of a good man. Translated by David Le Vay
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Joseph Roth is the author of The Legend of the Holy Drinker, The Radetzky March, The Silent Prophet, and String of Pearls.
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'This small novel is a masterpiece.' - Angela Huth, Listener; 'Weights and Measures gave me the purest reading pleasure... A haunting little book, touched by genius.' - Robert Nye, Guardian; 'A masterly performance.' - Paul Bailey, Evening Standard; 'An absorbing fable, dark, beautifully written and with a physical immediacy in the prose... I want to read more.' - New Statesman; 'Written with the melancholy wit and grace of Gogol... passages of electrifying beauty.' - The Times
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- PublisherPenguin Classics
- Publication date2017
- ISBN 10 0241307449
- ISBN 13 9780241307441
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