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- Author: Joseph Roth
- Publisher: Pushkin Press
- Year: 2024
- Pages: 112
- ISBN-10: 1805330659
- ISBN-13: 9781805330653
- Format: 12.7 x 19.6 x 1.7 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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At his wife's insistence, Eibenschutz leaves his job as an artilleryman in the Austrian army for a job as Weights and Measures Inspector in a remote part of the Empire near the Russian border. Attempting to exercise some rectitude in his duties, he is at sea in a world of smugglers, profiteers and small-time crooks. When he discovers that his wife has become pregnant by his own clerk, he spends less and less time at home, preferring to frequent a tavern on the border. Here, he becomes hopelessly drawn to a gypsy woman; she, however, is prepared to share the bed of the landlord Jadlowker, Eibenschutz's enemy, an unprincipled profiteer who has made the tavern a beacon for smuggling activity.
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- Author: Joseph Roth
- Publisher: Pushkin Press
- Year: 2024
- Pages: 112
- ISBN-10: 1805330659
- ISBN-13: 9781805330653
- Format: 12.7 x 19.6 x 1.7 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
At his wife's insistence, Eibenschutz leaves his job as an artilleryman in the Austrian army for a job as Weights and Measures Inspector in a remote part of the Empire near the Russian border. Attempting to exercise some rectitude in his duties, he is at sea in a world of smugglers, profiteers and small-time crooks. When he discovers that his wife has become pregnant by his own clerk, he spends less and less time at home, preferring to frequent a tavern on the border. Here, he becomes hopelessly drawn to a gypsy woman; she, however, is prepared to share the bed of the landlord Jadlowker, Eibenschutz's enemy, an unprincipled profiteer who has made the tavern a beacon for smuggling activity.
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