In 2019, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.Īll our signed books include a 'Signed Copy' gift tag, supplied free of charge. Her novel Flights won the 2018 International Booker Prize, in Jennifer Croft’s translation. Tokarczuk’s ninth novel runs to over 900 pages and is described by many as her magnum opus.Ībout the Author: Olga Tokarczuk is the author of nine novels, three short story collections and has been translated into forty-five languages. In collaboration with Fitzcarraldo Editions, this collector’s edition of the long-awaited English-language edition, translated from the Polish by International Booker Prize–winning translator Jennifer Croft and signed by the author, is limited to only 1000 copies.
The Books of Jacob was first published in Polish in 2014. In The Books of Jacob, her masterpiece, 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Olga Tokarczuk writes 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.Įnlarged from the paperback version, this elegant boxed edition is covered in real cloth specially dyed in the coveted Fitzcarraldo colourway – Yves Klein blue – and adorned with its trademark logo, inspired by the imprints of early printing presses.Īn exposed binding celebrates the grand scale and literary gravitas of this epic publication from one of the world’s most gifted novelists. 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 Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. New & Unread - Published 1st September 2022 Hardback Numbered Slipcase Limited Edition The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk - Signed Limited Edition
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