(P/B) HOTEL SAVOY

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One of the finest German language authors of the first half of the twentieth century, Joseph Roth was born to Jewish parents on 2 September 1894 in Brody, then little more than a shtetl in East Galicia, at that time a territory of the Habsburg Austro-Hungarian Empire, and now in Ukraine. He began his higher education in nearby Lemberg (now Lviv) and in 1914 moved to the University in Vienna to study literature. He served in the Imperial Army on the Eastern Front in 1916, not as a combatant but as a writer and military reporter. After demobilisation and eventual return to Vienna in 1918 - an experience which must to some extent have informed his compassionate depiction of the Heimkehrer (returning soldiers, or "homecomers") in Hotel Savoy - he wrote for leftist newspapers there until moving to Berlin in 1920, when he started writing for the more prominent liberal press, an early career in which he was soon employed by important papers in Frankfurt and Prague. [...] (From the publisher)