Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth

"Pim, though an unlikely contender for a Roth biographer (his first published book was about dinosaurs), proves a sensitive, judicious and perceptive guide."

"His analysis of Roth's novels is clear and convincing, free of fanciful conjecture."

"A remarkable work of detection and empathy."

"Another gripe is the long plot summaries of each of the novels, which seem unnecessary since they've all been recently published in English."

"We are left in no doubt that the forces that rended Roth's world are still active in ours."

"With rare verve, Pim exalts Roth as a novelist of tragic pan-European yearning ..."

"His research empowers him to be rigorously sceptical of a writer who was an unreliable historian of both the empire and his own life, telling outrageous lies about his war record, his education, his birthplace and, most significantly, his family."

"Pim does a fine job of making his subject's progress through the world legible ..."

"Such minor quibbles notwithstanding, Pim has given us an authoritative and long-overdue life of an author whose pertinence to our contemporary times is both indisputable and unsettling."

"Endless Flight is a welcome aid for people like me who can't read Roth, or his critics and biographers, in German, and for any English-language readers who might want an introduction to his work."