Weights and Measures
  • Published:
    Feb-2003
  • Formats:
    Print / eBook
  • Main Genre:
    Literary
  • Time Period:
    Contemporary
  • Pages:
    160
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'Every man had not only a weak spot but also a criminal one' At his wife's insistence, upstanding citizen and artillery officer Anselm Eibenschtz 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
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    •  
    • Feb-2003
    • Peter Owen Publishers
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0720611369
    • ISBN13: 9780720611366
    •  
    • Oct-2017
    • Penguin (UK)
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0241307449
    • ISBN13: 9780241307441
    •  
    • Nov-2024
    • Steerforth Press
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 1805330659
    • ISBN13: 9781805330653
    •  
    • Oct-2017
    • Penguin
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0241307457
    • ISBN13: 9780241307458
    •  
    • Jan-2021
    • A Story to tell
    • eBook (Kindle)
    •  
    • Nov-2024
    • Steerforth Press
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1805331264
    • ISBN13: 9781805331261



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