Perlefter: The Story of A Bourgeois

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Joseph Roth, c. 1932

JOSEPH ROTH was born in Brody, Galicia — then part of Austria-Hungary and now in Ukraine — in 1894. He served in the Austrian Army between 1916 and 1918 and worked as a journalist from 1923 to 1932 in Berlin and Vienna. When the Nazis came to power in 1933 he emigrated to Paris, where he drank himself into an early grave in 1939.

Roth also wrote The Antichrist, The Hundred Days, Weights and Measures, Flight Without End and The Silent Prophet, which have also been published by Peter Owen, as well as The Radetzky March, String of Pearls and The Legend of the Holy Drinker.