The Coral Merchant The Coral Merchant
Book 4 - Essential Stories

The Coral Merchant

Essential Stories

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Publisher Description

New translations of the six greatest short stories by Joseph Roth, collected in a beautiful edition

Joseph Roth's sensibility--both clear-eyed and nostalgic, harshly realistic and tenderly humane--produced some of the most distinctive fiction of the twentieth century. This collection of his most essential stories, in exquisite new translations by Ruth Martin, showcases the astonishing range and power of his short stories and novellas.

In prose of aching beauty and precision, Roth shows us isolated souls pursuing lost ideals and impossible desires. Forced to remove a bust of the fallen Austrian emperor from his house, an eccentric old count holds a funeral for it and intends to be buried in the same plot himself; a humble coral merchant, dissatisfied with his life and longing for the sea, chooses to adulterate his wares with false coral, with catastrophic results; young Fini, just entering the haze of early sexuality, falls into an unsatisfying relationship with an older musician. With the greatest craft and sensitivity, Roth unfolds the many fragilities of the human heart.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2020
November 10
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
256
Pages
PUBLISHER
Steerforth Press
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
387.1
KB
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