Product Description: La obra de Gregor von Rezzori retoma, de forma personal, los temas de los grandes escritores centroeuropeos, Roth, Musil, Schnitzler, Von Hofmannstahl... Esta es la ironica, evocadora y deslumbrante reconstruccion de la vida de un hombre, de aristocratica familia, nacido durante la primera guerra europea, que destruyo el imperio austrohungaro, a traves de cinco relaciones significativas con personas judias...read more

Product Description: The elusive narrator of this beautifully written, complex, and powerfully disconcerting novel is the scion of a decayed aristocratic family from the farther reaches of the defunct Austro-Hungarian Empire. In five psychologically fraught episodes, he revisits his past, from adolescence to middle age, a period that coincides with the twentieth-century’s ugliest years...read more

Product Description: Abruptly leaving his American wife, job, and home, a European-born tycoon purchases a ticket for the famed Orient Express and, as he rides across Europe, muses on the differences between Europe as it is and Europe as he remembers it.

Product Description: In the summer of 1938, young Traugott von Jassilkowski embarks on a social career that he hopes will take him to the heights of the German aristocracy. A cunningly devised wardrobe, a strategic courtship, important weekends with well-placed grandees, the right lunches and boozy evenings with Berlin's smart set: Will these carry him to the top or land him nowhere? In the scintillating narrative style for which he is justly celebrated, Gregor von Rezzori offers this cautionary about Germany at the height of its most dangerous folly...read more

A novel in five stories, depicting one man's ambivalent, at times obsessive, relations with Jewish friends and lovers--including his Jewish wife

Product Description: Gregor von Rezzori was born in Czernowitz, a onetime provincial capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire that was later to be absorbed successively into Romania, the USSR, and the Ukraine—a town that was everywhere and nowhere, with a population of astonishing diversity...read more