The Books of Jacob
A Novel
The Nobel Prize-winner's richest, most sweeping and ambitious novel yet follows the comet-like rise and fall of a mysterious, messianic religious leader as he blazes his way across eighteenth-century Europe.In the mid-eighteenth century, as new ideas-and a new unrest-begin to sweep the Continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Before long, he has changed not only his name but his persona; visited by what seem to be ecstatic experiences, Jacob Frank casts a charismatic spell that attracts an increasingly fervent following. In the decade to come, Frank will traverse the Hapsburg and Ottoman empires with throng…
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Weitere Autoren: Croft, Jennifer (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-593-08749-7
- EAN: 9780593087497
- Produktnummer: 36697454
- Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
- Seitenangabe: 992 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Abbildungen: BLACK-AND-WHITE PIECES OF ART T/O
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Olga Tokarczuk has won the Nobel Prize in Literature and the International Booker Prize, among many other honors. She is the author of a dozen works of fiction, two collections of essays, and a children's book; her work has been translated into fifty languages.Jennifer Croft won the 2020 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing for her illustrated memoir Homesick and the 2018 Booker International Prize for her translation of Olga Tokarczuk's Flights.
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