{"product_id":"2026770000156-secondhand-flight-without-end","title":"Flight Without End","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good             ,              ex-library\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Worn\/faded, no tears\u003cbr\u003ePages: FEP missing                  \u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Previous owner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA haunting work of early twentieth-century European literary fiction, Flight Without End chronicles the restless, rootless wandering of Franz Tunda, a former Austrian officer who, after years of captivity in Russia and immersion in the Bolshevik revolution, finds himself utterly unable to reintegrate into the bourgeois world of Western Europe. Joseph Roth presents Tunda's journey not as a triumphant homecoming but as a slow, aching dissolution of identity — a man who has survived war and ideology only to discover that peacetime civilization offers him nothing to hold onto. Written with Roth's characteristic spare, melancholic precision, the novel argues that the true casualties of World War I were not merely the dead, but the living who were stripped of purpose, belonging, and self. The tone is quietly devastating, suffused with irony and a deep, unsentimental compassion for the displaced and the disinherited. A masterwork of Weimar-era literature, it stands as one of the most piercing portraits of postwar alienation ever committed to the page.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48887915872475,"sku":"2026770000156-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/ce0a4f57-316a-4319-817b-dff3ffc8df51.png?v=1781749057","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026770000156-secondhand-flight-without-end","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}