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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

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.

Fitzcarraldo Editions. Very Good+. 2021. Paperback. 1910695599 . Card cover w/ French flaps, stiff and bright, small mark at head of rear panel; Pages a touch nicotine stained on edges, top-edge showing slight flecked staining, no ownership marks or annotation; Booklet titled 'How I Wrote The Books of Jacob' by Tokarczuk laid in front, with annotation/commentary handwritten by Eva Hoffman; Binding tight. ; 5.6 x 9"; 928 pages .

Fitzcarraldo Editions. Paperback. New.

Fitzcarraldo Editions. Paperback. New.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

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