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A witty novel of 'sublime simplicity' about an alcoholic vagrant who has a series of lucky breaks that lift him briefly onto a different plane of existence.

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At the end of the Great War, Andreas Pum has lost a leg but at least he has a medal and a barrel-organ which he plays on the streets of Vienna. At first the simple-minded veteran is satisfied with his lot, and he even finds an ample widow to marry. But then a public quarrel with a respectable citizen on a tram turns Andreas's life onto a rapid downward trajectory. As he loses first his beggar's permit, then his new wife, and even his freedom, ...

Andreas Pum, having lost his leg in the war, is rewarded with a permit to support himself by playing a barrel organ in the streets. At first the simple-minded veteran is entirely satisfied with his lot, and he even finds a widow to marry. But then a quarrel on a tram turns Andreas's life onto a rapid downward trajectory. As he loses first his beggar's permit, then his new wife, and even his freedom, he is finally provoked into rejecting his bl...

The Hotel Years gathers sixty-four feuilletons: on hotels, pains and pleasures, personalities, and the deteriorating international situation of the 1930s. Never before translated into English, these pieces begin in Vienna just at the end of the First World War, and end in Paris near the outbreak of the Second World War. Roth, the great journalist of his day, needed journalism to survive: in his six-volume collected works in German, there are t...

The story of Great War veteran Andreas Pum. When he is imprisoned after a fight, life seems unbearable. A chance encounter with an old comrade who has made his fortune introduces Pum to a world where he has a transfiguring experience of justice.

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An unforgettable portrait of the Austro-Hungarian author of The Radetzky March, this biography in letters - selected here for the first time by Michael Hofmann - is classic European literature at its finest

Joseph Roth's semi-autobiographical novel, now reissued with a beautiful new cover as part of Granta's Roth revival, in advance of the 75th anniversary of Roth's death in 2014.

A new translation by Michael Hoffmann of one of Roth's most acclaimed novels, an elegy to the vanished world of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Published in advance of the 75th anniversary of Roth's death in 2014.

Wanderings in Europe between the Wars. From the author of "The Radetzky March" is this new selection of poignant, witty and unsettling writings.

Roth's reports from France 1925-1939, with an afterword by Michal Hofmann and reissued with a stylish new cover.

An unforgettable portrait of Berlin during the Weimar Republic, reissued with a stunning new cover.

Who would have thought that seventy-three years after Joseph Roth's lonely death in Paris, new editions of his translations would be appearing regularly? Roth, a transcendent novelist who also produced some of the most breathtakingly lyrical journalism ever written, is now being discovered by a new generation. Nine years in the making, this life through letters provides us with our most extensive portrait of Roth's calamitous life-his father's...

While visiting Vienna, the Shah of Persia falls for a beautiful countess. The Austrian officials arrange for him to spend the night with the "countess", but unbeknown to the Shah she is a prostitute who merely resembles the countess. From this night follows a chain of ruinous consequences.

The Wandering Jews reconnects with the rich complexities of European Jewish culture before it was swallowed up by the Holocaust. Roth's brilliant and penetrating analysis proved tragically prophetic' The Times

Roth is one of the great addictive writers of the first half of the twentieth century. He is witty, profound, surprising and melancholy. The paradox is this: no one is fundamentally more pessimistic, no writer is more affirmative" "The Scotsman".

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Joseph Roth s final novella, The Leviathan, concerns a shtetl s finest coral merchant and how his dream of seeing the sea for the first time materializes at a terrible cost.