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The Books of Jacob [a] (Polish: Księgi Jakubowe [b] [c]) is an epic historical novel [5] by Olga Tokarczuk, published by Wydawnictwo Literackie in October 2014. [6] It is Tokarczuk's ninth novel and is the product of extensive historical research, taking her seven years to write.
- Olga Tokarczuk, Jennifer Croft
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Sep 23, 2021 · Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in literature, published The Books of Jacob in 2014. The novel follows the messianic religious leader Jacob Frank as he travels...
Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk [1] ([tɔˈkart͡ʂuk]; born 29 January 1962) is a Polish writer, activist, [2] and public intellectual. [3] She is one of the most critically acclaimed and successful authors of her generation in Poland.
May 16, 2022 · Nobel Prize-winning Polish author Olga Tokarczuk responds to questions with answers that are as thoughtful and circuitous as many of the passages in her award-winning 2014 novel “The Books of...
Jan 19, 2022 · The Books of Jacob, Olga Tokarczuk’s magnum opus, was recently published in English by Fitzcarraldo Editions to great critical acclaim. Out in Polish in 2014, the hefty, 900-page book tells the story of an 18th-century Polish Jew who claimed to be the messiah, told from multiple perspectives.
Nov 4, 2021 · The rise and fall of a Messiah: Olga Tokarczuk’s epic novel of Jewish life in Poland. The Nobel prize winner sets the historical record straight. By Catherine Taylor. November 4, 2021. On the moonless night of 12th October 1942, a group of Jews fled their homes in the village of Karolówka (now Karolivka) in western Ukraine.
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Oct 4, 2022 · When Olga Tokarczuk set out to write her mammoth novel The Books of Jacob in 2014, these messiahs were perhaps less rooted in the kinds of nationalist movements we have become accustomed to...
