When Henry Roth published Call It Sleep, his first novel, in 1934, it was greeted with critical acclaim. But in that dark Depression year, books were hard to sell, and the novel quickly dropped out of sight, as did its twenty-eight-year-old...
Die spannenden Schilderungen vom Leben auf den russischen Landgütern und in der Stadt, mit seinen Familienfesten, Bällen, Jagden und Schlittenfahrten, wechseln mit Kampfhandlungen, Märschen oder Lagebesprechungen der...