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The books of Jacob : or: A fantastic journey across seven borders, five languages, and three major religions, not counting the minor sects / Olga Tokarczuk ; translated by Jennifer Croft ; map by Meighan Cavanaugh.
Publication details: Melbourne, Vic. : Text Publishing, 2021.Description: 965 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781922330680
- 192233068X
- Fantastic journey across seven borders, five languages, and three major religions, not counting the minor sects
- 891.85 23
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction - Historical | TOK | Available | 063680 |
Total reserves: 0
"A novel"--Cover.
Originally published in Poland under the title Ksiegi Jakubowe by Wydawnictwo Literackie, Krakow, 2014.
As new ideas-and a new unrest-begin to sweep the Continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Visited by what seem to be ecstatic experiences, Jacob Frank casts a spell that attracts a fervent following. 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 iconoclastic beliefs.
Translated from the Polish.
