Olga Tokarczuk

Broschiertes Buch

The Books of Jacob

Beschreibung

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 mysterious, heretical Jewish splinter group that converted at different times to both Islam and Catholicism.

Autor

Olga Tokarczuk is the author of nine novels, three short story collections and has been translated into forty-five languages. Her novel Flights won the 2018 International Booker Prize, in Jennifer Croft's translation. In 2019, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fitzcarraldo Editions
• Seitenzahl: 892
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 225mm x 140mm x 59mm
• Gewicht: 946g
• ISBN-13: 9781910695593
• ISBN-10: 1910695599
• Artikelnr.: 61338324