‚Every man had not only a weak spot but also a criminal one’At his wife’s insistence, upstanding citizen and artillery officer Anselm Eibenschutz leaves his beloved Austro-Hungarian army and takes up a civilian post, as Inspector of Weights and Measures in a remote backwater near the Russian border. At first he does everything by the book, but gradually he finds himself adrift in a world of petty corruption, bribery and drunkenness – and undone by his passion for the beautiful gypsy Euphemia. A haunting evocation of Eastern Europe’s borderlands in the early twentieth century, Weights and Measures is also the story of the disintegration of a good man. Translated by David Le Vay
Sprache Englisch ● Format EPUB ● Seiten 140 ● ISBN 9780241307458 ● Verlag Penguin Books Ltd ● Erscheinungsjahr 2017 ● herunterladbar 3 mal ● Währung EUR ● ID 5282657 ● Kopierschutz Adobe DRM
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