Under this title the publisher resumes, with a translation journal, a book that had already appeared under the title the "weight of grace" It is actually a long story, which tells a wonderful and miraculous story, inspired by the book of Job, deliciously endearing characters. But this story has a backdrop, this realistic, the fate of two generations of a Jewish family from Galicia, and it also becomes the pen of Roth an extraordinary ethnographic document on ordinary shtetl, and the first waves of emigration to America of their population with all the vicissitudes of their adjustment. It is a world that Roth, a native of this region, knew, despite his membership of the assimilated bourgeoisie. For those who do not know Joseph Roth, this reading is a wonderful way to approach his work, before diving into this great masterpiece, the Walk Radetzki
