Weights and Measures - Joseph RothJoseph Roth's dark fable about a man torn between resolve and restlessness in Eastern Europe's borderlandsIn the twilight of the Austro Hungarian Empire, Anselm Eibenschtz is appointed inspector of weights and measures in a remote border town. There he encounters a shadowy world of gamblers and smugglers and discovers his wife is pregnant by another man. Right and wrong prove hard to judge, as Eibenschtz is drawn into a destructive affair of his own.