The Tale of the 1002nd Night

Roth, Joseph; Hofmann, Michael

ISBN 10: 0312193416 / ISBN 13: 9780312193416

Published by St Martins Pr, 1998

About this Item

Joseph Roth (1894-1939) was one of the greatest novelists of the twentieth century, a versatile writer of extraordinary range who was able to capture cross-sections of entire societies. Written in exile shortly before the Nazi annexation of Roth's native Austria, The Tale of the 1002nd Night could not be published in Germany until well after the fall of the Third Reich; it appears now in English for the first time, one of the last major novels by Roth to be translated for English-language readers.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Tale of the 1002nd Night
• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312193416
• ISBN 13: 9780312193416
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

In the first English version of Roth's final novel, a young woman, abandoned by her lover in late nineteenth-century Vienna, is forced into a bordello, where she catches the eye of a Persian shah whose gift, a magnificent string of pearls, has an unexpected impact on her life. 10,000 first printing.

About the Author

Joseph Roth was born in Galicia in 1894 and became a journalist who worked in Vienna and Berlin until Hitler's rise to power. In 1933 he emigrated to Paris, where he found himself at the center of an intellectual community of exiles. An earlier version of this book was first published in 1937 in Poland, since Roth was no longer able to secure a German publisher. This edition was followed in 1939 with a German-language publication by De Gemeenschap, a Dutch publisher whose copies were confiscated by the Nazis the following year. The author of such classics as The Radetzky March and The Emperor's Tomb, Roth died in Paris in 1939.

Michael Hofmann is widely regarded as one of the world's foremost translators of works from German to English, and is a frequent contributor to The New York Times Book Review as well as the author of three volumes of poetry.