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The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth

In 1859, a humble infantry lieutenant saves the life of Emperor Franz Josef at the Battle of Solferino. As a result he is elevated to the nobility, and forever alienated from his peasant Slovenian origins. His son becomes a District Commissioner, upholding the rigid conventions of hatted-and-gloved Imperial bureaucracy, and his grandson a cavalry officer over whose aimless existence falls the shadow of the First World War. The decline of the Trotta family goes hand-in-hand with that of the Empire they served. Joseph Roth has been compared to Anton Chekhov for his compassionate knowledge of the human condition, and for his ability to immerse the reader in a fully realised world. In The Radetzky March he shows us the Austro-Hungarian Empire; not its epicentre, Vienna, but the fringes. As William Boyd writes in his introduction: ‘It’s a world of isolated country estates and military barracks; of lonely, lovelorn cavalry officers and melancholy bureaucrats. It was a world Roth ardently missed.’ The great historical events that shape the Trottas’ lives are rarely witnessed at first hand. Instead, like Tolstoy or Proust, Roth creates gold from the everyday, in particular the relationship between fathers and sons in all its unspoken love and frailty. (Allan Massie, Scotsman)

Features;

• Folio Society First Impression
• Publisher Folio Society, London; 2015
• Red Buckram Hardback, 352 pp
• Illustrated by Tim Laing
• Size 230 x 165mm, 1.1kg

Condition: Fine – Superb Unmarked Copy

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