Hotel Years Wanderings in Europe between the Wars

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'A hugely significant and wonderfully haunting collection' - William Boyd

In the 1920s and 30s, Joseph Roth travelled extensively in Europe, leading a peripatetic life living in hotels and writing about the towns through which he passed. Incisive, nostalgic, curious and sharply observed - and collected together here for the first time - his pieces paint a picture of a continent racked by change yet clinging to tradition. From the 'compulsive' exercise regime of the Albanian army, the rickety industry of the new oil capital of Galicia, and ''split and scalped'' houses of Tirana forced into modernity, to the individual and idiosyncratic characters that Roth encounters in his hotel stays, these tender and quietly dazzling vignettes form a series of literary postcards written from a bygone world, creeping towards world war.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9781783788477
Published: April 2022

Number of pages: 288
Width: 129 mm
Height: 198 mm
Depth: 17 mm

Publisher: Granta Books