The Leviathan
by Joseph Roth | 
Hotel Savoy
by Joseph Roth | 
The Spider's Web
by Joseph Roth | 
Weights and Measures
by Joseph Roth | 
Repetition
by Peter Handke | 
The Man Without Qualities
by Robert Musil | 
Woodcutters
by Thomas Bernhard | 
Frost
by Thomas Bernhard | 
On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House
by Peter Handke | 
The Loser
by Thomas Bernhard |
Confusion
by Stefan Zweig |
Zipper and His Father
by Joseph Roth | 
Malina
by Ingeborg Bachmann | 
The Terrors of Ice and Darkness
by Christoph Ransmayr | 
Flight Without End
by Joseph Roth |
The Confusions of Young Torless
by Robert Musil | 
Take Me With You
by Catherine Ryan Hyde | 
Empire Falls
by Richard Russo |
Anne of Windy Poplars
by Lucy Maud Montgomery | 
The Sense of an Ending
by Julian Barnes |
From Joseph Roth, an allegorical yet decidedly modern novelist, comes this story of postwar disillusion, the limits of faith, and "personal fate as governed by the blind, casual workings of a machine controlled by no one and for which no one is responsible" (The New York Times). When Andreas Pum returns from World War I, he has lost a leg but gained a medal. But unlike his fellow sufferers, Pum maintains his unswerving faith in God, Government, and Authority. Ironically, after a dispute, Pum is imprisoned as a rebel, and all that he believed in is now thrown into upheaval. Moving along at a breakneck clip, Rebellion captures the cynicism and upheavals of a postwar society. Its jazz-like cadences mix with social commentary to create a wise parable about justice and society.