{"product_id":"weights-and-measures-penguin-modern-classics","title":"Weights and Measures (Penguin Modern Classics)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'Every man had not only a weak spot but also a criminal one'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt his wife's insistence, upstanding citizen and artillery officer Anselm Eibenschütz leaves his beloved Austro-Hungarian army and takes up a civilian post, as Inspector of Weights and Measures in a remote backwater near the Russian border. At first he does everything by the book, but gradually he finds himself adrift in a world of petty corruption, bribery and drunkenness - and undone by his passion for the beautiful gypsy Euphemia. A haunting evocation of Eastern Europe's borderlands in the early twentieth century, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWeights and Measures\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is also the story of the disintegration of a good man.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTranslated by David Le Vay\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Joseph Roth (Author)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52062023385409,"sku":"978-0241307441","price":1350.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0724\/3087\/9041\/files\/5412.jpg?v=1786106222","url":"https:\/\/www.bookemporium.pk\/products\/weights-and-measures-penguin-modern-classics","provider":"The Book Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}