Weights and Measures
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Published:5th Oct '17
Should be back in stock very soon
A short, brilliantly evocative novel set in the bleak eastern European borderlands before the First World War.
'Every man had not only a weak spot but also a criminal one'
At his wife's insistence, upstanding citizen and artillery officer Anselm Eibenschütz 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
This small novel is a masterpiece -- Angela Huth * Listener *
Weights and Measures gave me the purest reading pleasure... A haunting little book, touched by genius * Guardian *
A masterly performance -- Paul Bailey * Evening Standard *
An absorbing fable, dark, beautifully written and with a physical immediacy in the prose... I want to read more * New Statesman *
Written with the melancholy wit and grace of Gogol... passages of electrifying beauty * The Times *
ISBN: 9780241307441
Dimensions: 198mm x 130mm x 7mm
Weight: 91g
112 pages