"When Andreas Pum returns from World War I, he has lost a leg but gained a medal. Unlike his fellow sufferers, however, Pum maintains his unswerving faith in God, Government, and Authority. He makes his livelihood playing sentimental and patriotic tunes on a barrel organ. Uncomplaining, stupid, and docile, he marries the (very) recently widowed Katharina shortly after meeting her."--BOOK JACKET.

"Disaster strikes soon after. An argument with a stranger on a tram leads to blows and, unfortunately for Andreas Pum, the other man is of a higher class, and so Pum loses his license to play the barrel organ. His wife is furious and takes up with another man."--BOOK JACKET.

"Things get even worse at his trial. Pum finds himself in prison, after striking an official. Pum ages terribly in a matter of weeks. Andreas, older and older, obsessed with the injustice he's suffered, dies an embittered old man."--BOOK JACKET. "Rebellion, the last of Joseph Roth's novels to be translated into English, captures the cynicism and upheavals of a postwar culture."--BOOK JACKET.