{"product_id":"the-joseph-roth-collection-konrad-silberfalk-9798199968270","title":"The Joseph Roth Collection: Book I: The Bust of Emperor Franz Joseph, Confession of a Murderer, The False Weight","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThree works from the exile years of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers - each different in form, all unmistakably Roth.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Bust of Emperor Franz Joseph\u003c\/i\u003e, a Polish count of the old Habsburg world finds himself stranded in a new nation-state that has no language for the kind of belonging he has always taken for granted. His devotion to a vanished empire is treated as an eccentricity. It is, in fact, a form of faith.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eConfession of a Murderer\u003c\/i\u003e, a Russian exile in a Paris restaurant tells the story of his life to a group of silent listeners - a tale that moves from Odessa to St. Petersburg to revolutionary chaos and into the wreckage of exile, circling always around the question of what a man becomes when the world gives him every reason to be worse than he intended.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe False Weight\u003c\/i\u003e, an incorruptible former soldier becomes the inspector of weights and measures in a remote Galician border town where every merchant cheats, every official takes bribes, and honesty is the only thing nobody has any use for. Then he meets a gypsy woman, and his integrity - the one thing he had left - begins to give way.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished between 1934 and 1937, during the years of Roth's Paris exile, these three works show the full range of a writer who could move between elegy, atmospheric noir, and moral fable without losing, in any register, his precise and devastating intelligence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBy Joseph Roth. Author of \u003ci\u003eThe Radetzky March\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Konrad Silberfalk,Joseph Roth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798199968270\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/04\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.80d","brand":"Konrad Silberfalk","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48801623113983,"sku":"9798199968270","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-joseph-roth-collection-konrad-silberfalk-9798199968270","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}