This decision is intended to echo the pagination and reading styles of texts written in Hebrew.Ĭontent Warning: The source material occasionally deals with issues such as sexual violence, violence, and religious persecution. This guide also follows the author’s stylistic choice of numbering the pages in reverse, beginning on page 892 and ending on page 27. For more information see our Delivery and Returns page.This guide uses the print version of the 2021 Fitzcarraldo edition, translated by Jennifer Croft. Extra import charges will now apply to all EU customers. This product is in production and will ship in July 2022. The collaboration between Fitzcarraldo Editions and Volume marks the first time the independent literary publisher has offered a hardcover edition of one of its titles (beyond its collectible paperback range) and signals Volume’s expanded reach to modern bibliophiles. Volume has partnered with Fitzcarraldo Editions to offer a collector’s edition of the new, and much anticipated, English translation of this contemporary masterpiece by International Booker Prize winner and 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature Laureate, Olga Tokarczuk. The Books of Jacob follows the story of Frank through the perspectives of his contemporaries, capturing Enlightenment Europe on the cusp of precipitous change, searching for certainty and longing for transcendence. In the decade to come, Frank will traverse the Hapsburg and Ottoman empires, throngs of disciples in his thrall as he reinvents himself again and again, converts to Islam and then Catholicism, is pilloried as a heretic and revered as the Messiah, and wreaks havoc on the conventional order, Jewish and Christian alike, with scandalous rumours of his sect’s secret rituals and the spread of his increasingly iconoclastic beliefs. 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 mid-eighteenth century, as new ideas begin to sweep the continent, a young Jewish man of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland.
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