The Hotel Years, by Joseph Roth - book review: Cameos in a lost continent
Joseph Roth is best known for his novel The Radetzky March, about the decline and fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Born into a Jewish family in Galicia in 1894, he worked as a journalist for the Frankfurter Zeitung, among other newspapers, travelling across Europe until the rise of fascism forced him to leave Germany.