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The Coral Merchant - Essential Stories (Paperback)
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The Coral Merchant - Essential Stories (Paperback)
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List price R361
Loot Price R326
Discovery Miles 3 260
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Joseph Roth's sensibility-both clear-eyed and nostalgic, harshly
realistic and tenderly humane-produced some of the most distinctive
fiction of the twentieth century. This collection of his most
essential stories, in exquisite new translations by Ruth Martin,
showcases the astonishing range and power of his short stories and
novellas. In prose of aching beauty and precision, Roth shows us
isolated souls pursuing lost ideals and impossible desires. Forced
to remove a bust of the fallen Austrian emperor from his house, an
eccentric old count holds a funeral for it and intends to be buried
in the same plot himself; a humble coral merchant, dissatisfied
with his life and longing for the sea, chooses to adulterate his
wares with false coral, with catastrophic results; young Fini, just
entering the haze of early sexuality, falls into an unsatisfying
relationship with an older musician. With the greatest craft and
sensitivity, Roth unfolds the many fragilities of the human heart.
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