ARGONAUT BOOKS

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. Reviews 'A magnificent writer.' - Svetlana Alexievich, 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate'A writer on the level of W. G. Sebald.' - Annie Proulx, author of The Shipping News '[A] visionary novel ... Tokarczuk is wrestling with th...Read More