Confession of a Murderer: Told in One Night

Confession of a Murderer details the interior life of a man consumed by jealousy and hatred.

In a Russian restaurant on Paris's Left Bank, Russian exile Golubchik alternately fascinates and horrifies a rapt audience with a wild story of collaboration, deception, and murder in the days leading up to the Russian Revolution. Worthy to sit beside Conrad and Dostoevsky s excursions into the twisted world of secret agents. Joseph Roth is one of the great writers in German of this century; and this novel is a fine introduction to this view of intrigue, necessity, and moral doubt. The London Times