One word: magic. "Strawberries" is a fictional portrait of a childhood space, the physical place, the entire world in which one can experience joy and happiness. "Strawberries" is the radiant construction of a place – a town – at a given moment in time, before the war. "Strawberries" tells the history of the nomadic peoples, of people who were forced to live in extreme simplicity or poverty, and whose story became epic, by virtue of being so anonymous. The whole of Josef Roth is found between the few pages of "Strawberries". All the themes, the irony, the melancholic longing for the past, the short sentences, the changing rhythms, alcohol, youth, the attitude towards money, life and death, the tension between Eastern and Western Europe, the presence of the Jews as magical, dubious and contradictory subjects. Every sentence and every paragraph in the book is a complete work. Every piece is an illumination. The work began to be written in 1929, and although Joseph Roth never completed it, his attitude towards it was always special: "The Great Novel", "The Book of Childhood", "The Work with Flight". When Roth's book is interrupted, it actually causes an increased effect: the importance of the thousands of plots found in "Strawberries" is so great that the work could have included three or three thousand such pages, without its value being affected. Here is a book without an end, a work without an end, which ends in the reader's mind with a sort of three imaginary dots. As it is written about the book: "There are unfinished novellas so perfectly, and so ingeniously short, that their reading is endless." "What Roth sees and conveys in Strawberries is a unique essence, expressing the fragility of the human condition" Nadine Gordimer "Roth came from the East, from the swamps, from the strawberries, and wrote like angels" Der Spiegel