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Joseph Roth’s The Emperor’s Tomb is a continuation of the saga of the von Trotta family from The Radetzky March.
 
This novel presents both a powerful, moving look at a decaying society and its journey through World War I and its devastating aftermath, and a story of the erosion of one man’s desperate faith in the virtues of a simple life.
 
“Roth details without pity the inner life of the authentic self.” —New York Times

About the Author

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Joseph Roth was born in 1894 in a small Galician town on the eastern borders of 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 13 novels, including The Radetzky March (1932), as well as many stories and essays.