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PGUK3, 2021. New. 928 pages. Polish language. 8.94x5.59x2.17 inches.

Paperback / softback. New. In THE BOOKS OF JACOB, her most sweeping and ambitious novel yet, 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Olga Tokarczuk follows the comet-like rise and fall of the mysterious Messianic leader Jacob Frank in Enlightenment Europe.

Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; In The Books of Jacob, Tokarczuk traverses the Hapsburg and Ottoman Empires and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in search of Jacob Frank, a highly controversial historical figure from the eighteenth century and the leader of a myster

Fitzcarraldo Editions. Paperback. New.

Fitzcarraldo Editions. Paperback. New.

First UK paperback edition first printing. Book has some light creasing to the spine. Signed by Tokarczuk on a publisher's bookplate attached to the front endpaper. Finally available in English, Olga Tokarczuk s kaleidoscopic magnus opus about charismatic Jewish eighteenth-century mystic Jacob Frank and an Eastern Europe swept by new ideas is stunningly translated by Jennifer Croft.

London: Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2021. First paperback edition in English. Paperback. Nearly fine copy with one tiny ding to top front cover. Signed by the author on the publisher's bookplate affixed to the front endpaper. 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 throngs of disciples in his thrall as he reinvents himself again and again, converts to Islam and then Catholicism, is pilloried as a heretic… Read More