By Night Under the Stone Bridge - Paperback
by Leo Perutz
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Availability:In StockContributor:Leo Perutz, Eric Mosbacher (Translator)Publish date:2013-06-04Pages:208
Language:EnglishPublisher:Arcade PublishingISBN-13:9781611458411ISBN-10:1611458412UPC:9781611458411Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, Literary, JewishSize:8.21 x 5.50 x 0.63 inchesWeight:0.5908Product ID:SCQXXRD1C2
By Night Under the Stone Bridge
Rudolf II, king of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor, is paranoid, spendthrift, and wayward. In sixteenth-century Prague, seat of Christendom, he rules over an empty treasury and a court of parasites and schemers. Meanwhile in the ghetto, the Great Rabbi, mystic and seer, guides his people in the uneasy cohabitation of Jew and Christian, while the fabulously wealthy financier Mordechai Meisl has a...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Arcade PublishingISBN-13:9781611458411ISBN-10:1611458412UPC:9781611458411Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, Literary, JewishSize:8.21 x 5.50 x 0.63 inchesWeight:0.5908Product ID:SCQXXRD1C2
Perutz, Leo: - Leo Perutz, a contemporary of Franz Kafka, was born in Prague in 1882 and lived in Vienna until the Nazi Anschluss, when he fled to Palestine. He returned from Israel to Austria in the early fifties and died there in 1957. Now recognized as a twentieth-century master, he is the author of eleven novels that blend varying degrees of history, legend, suspense, and the fantastic.
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