Search for your favourite author or book

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.

Others also viewed

Four bodies are found in a luxury hotelThe first is a man who checked in under a false name. But...
The sizzling enemies-to-lovers sensation with over 18m TikTok views   Sweet, good girl...
Dawn French, number one bestselling author of A Tiny Bit Marvellous and Oh Dear Silvia, returns...
Discover Captain Phasma’s mysterious history in the official prequel to The Last Jedi, the...