Weights and Measures
Author: Roth, Joseph
ISBN: 9780241307441
Publisher: Penguin
Year First Published: 2017
Pages: 112
Dimensions: 196mm x 129mm x 10mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
A short, brilliantly evocative novel set in the bleak eastern European borderlands before the First World War
An artillery officer is persuaded by his resentful wife to leave the Austro-Hungarian army to take up a civilian post as inspector of weights and measures in a remote territory near the Russian border. At first attempting to exercise some proper rectitude in his trade duties, he is soon at a loss in a shadowy world of smugglers, profiteers and petty crooks.
This great, painful novel is both a brilliant evocation of the remote reaches of eastern Europe before the catastrophe of the world wars and a frightening picture of the slow capitulation of a good man with traditional standards to insidious small-time corruption and to his own destructive passion.
ISBN: 9780241307441
Publisher: Penguin
Year First Published: 2017
Pages: 112
Dimensions: 196mm x 129mm x 10mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
A short, brilliantly evocative novel set in the bleak eastern European borderlands before the First World War
An artillery officer is persuaded by his resentful wife to leave the Austro-Hungarian army to take up a civilian post as inspector of weights and measures in a remote territory near the Russian border. At first attempting to exercise some proper rectitude in his trade duties, he is soon at a loss in a shadowy world of smugglers, profiteers and petty crooks.
This great, painful novel is both a brilliant evocation of the remote reaches of eastern Europe before the catastrophe of the world wars and a frightening picture of the slow capitulation of a good man with traditional standards to insidious small-time corruption and to his own destructive passion.
