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First released in 1953, this mysterious historical novel ostensibly identifies the group of events which resulted in Bohemia's beat by Austria at the Fight of the White Mountain, in the 16th century. However the Czech emigre publisher was probably motivated by the incidents of the Holocaust, so expertly will he re-create the uneasy alliances of Prague's Jewish and Catholic communities. While traveling in the woods, Emperor Rudolf II, King of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor, comes after two men counting money destined for a member of the "persecuted race", Mordechai Meisl. The Emperor needs a taler for himself, however the coin causes him only misfortune and, by some mysterious coincidences, ends up in Meisl's hands. Thus commences the long, magic formula, and often tragic association between your two. Rudolf II, corrupt, poor and spendthrift, needs Meisl's money-making abilities to finance his extravagances, while Meisl can prosper only under Rudolf's safeguard. By novel's end it's clear they may be in reality foes. Perutz allows his creativity soar, abandoning the unnecessary caution he often shows in other places. The risks pay back in this finest of his works now in translation.
