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Weights and Measures

ISBN 
9780241307441
Format 
Paperback
Recommended Price 
R245.00
Published 
November 2017
About the book: 
An artillery officer is persuaded by his resentful wife to leave the Austro-Hungarian army to take up a civilian post as inspector of weights and measures in a remote territory near the Russian border. At first attempting to exercise some proper rectitude in his trade duties, he is soon at a loss in a shadowy world of smugglers, profiteers and petty crooks. 
 
This great, painful novel is both a brilliant evocation of the remote reaches of eastern Europe before the catastrophe of the world wars and a frightening picture of the slow capitulation of a good man with traditional standards to insidious small-time corruption and to his own destructive passion.

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