The Books of Jacob
A Novel
A NEW YORKER “ESSENTIAL READ”
“Just as awe-inspiring as the Nobel judges claimed.” – The Washington Post
“Olga Tokarczuk is one of our greatest living fiction writers. . . This could well be a decade-defining book akin to Bolaño’s 2666.” –AV Club
“Sophisticated and ribald and brimming with folk wit. . . The comedy in this novel blends, as it does in life, with genuine tragedy.” –Dwight Garner, The New York Times
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, TIME, THE NEW YORKER, AND NPR
The Nobel Prize–winner’s richest, most sweeping and ambitious novel yet follows the comet-like rise and fall of a mysterious, messianic religious leader as he…
$27.99
January 31, 2023
Olga Tokarczuk has won the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Man Book International Prize, among many other honors. She is the author of a dozen works of fiction, two collections of essays, and a children’s book; her work has been translated into fifty languages.
House of Day, House of Night
Olga Tokarczuk; Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
The Empusium
Olga Tokarczuk; translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
The Books of Jacob
Olga Tokarczuk; Translated by Jennifer Croft
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Olga Tokarczuk; Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones