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A tale told from three simultaneous points of view follows an aging scientist who thinks back on this life, an exiled Jacobite with a yearning to visit the stars, and two prisoners who talk of life, love and fate.
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Vienna of the late nineteenth century, with its contrasting images of pomp and profound melancholy, provides the backdrop for Joseph Roth's final novel, which he completed in exile, a few years before his tragic death in 1939. This brilliant, allegorical tale of seduction and personal and societal ruin, set amidst exquisite, wistful descriptions of a waning aristocratic age, provides an essential link to our understanding of Roth's extraordinary fictive powers.
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