{"product_id":"viennese-romance-9781922070388","title":"Viennese Romance","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAvailable in English for the first time, here is David Vogel’s previously unknown novel that had literary Israel abuzz when it was published in 2012, almost one hundred years after the author started working on it.\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Vogel has long been regarded as a leading figure in modern Hebrew literature, and his work has been compared to that of Joseph Roth, Thomas Mann, and Franz Kafka. Vogel was thought to have written only a single novel: his masterpiece, \u003ci\u003eMarried Life\u003c\/i\u003e, which was published to great acclaim in 1929. Yet he had been working on another novel, which was only discovered recently.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in the early 1900s, \u003ci\u003eViennese Romance\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of Michael Rost, an eighteen-year-old Jewish youth who travels to Vienna, hungry for experience. There, he forms passing relationships with everyone who crosses his path — prostitutes, revolutionaries, paupers, army officers, and rich men alike. When a shady businessman takes the penniless Rost under his wing, he rents a room in the home of an affluent bourgeois family. He is seduced by the lady of the house while her husband is away on business, and shortly after begins an affair with her sixteen-year-old daughter as well. This love triangle threatens to destroy the entire family.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith a foreword that explains how this lost novel came to light, \u003ci\u003eViennese Romance\u003c\/i\u003e is a seminal work that explores the conflicts faced by many Jewish intellectuals in early twentieth-century Europe. A compelling portrait of a decadent society, it also lays bare the obsessive–destructive nature of love.\n \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David Vogel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48291217211643,"sku":"9781922070388","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781922070388_dccc6944-934a-4c93-891c-19209ce17ebd.jpg?v=1772488036","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/viennese-romance-9781922070388","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}