About the Author

Joseph Roth (1894-1939) was an Austrian novelist best known for his family saga The Radetzky March and for his novel of Jewish life, Job. He fought in the Austrian army in the First World War, and worked as a novelist and journalist in Frankfurt, becoming a leading Jewish intellectual of the era. With the rise of Nazism, he lived the rest of his life in exile.

Reviews

"Will Stone’s translation of Roth’s writings of the 1930s, On the End of the World . . . is a radiant book." — Morten Høi Jensen at LitHub

"Roth is Austria's Chekhov." -- William Boyd