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Author Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962-, author

Title 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]
Published Melbourne, Victoria : Text Publishing, 2021
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Description 964 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Summary 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
Analysis Australian
Notes "A novel"--Cover
Originally published in Poland under the title Ksiegi Jakubowe by Wydawnictwo Literackie, Krakow, 2014
Translated from the Polish
Subject Frank, Jacob, approximately 1726-1791 -- Fiction
SUBJECT Frank, Jacob, approximately 1726-1791. fast
Subject Catholic Church -- Fiction
Jews -- Fiction
Religion -- Fiction
Judaism -- Fiction
Islam -- Fiction
Iconoclasm -- Fiction
Villages -- Poland -- Fiction
Liturgical books -- Fiction
Religious leaders -- Fiction
Jewish heretics -- Fiction
Jewish messianic movements -- Europe -- History -- 18th century -- Fiction
Jewish heretics.
Religious leaders.
SUBJECT Poland -- History -- 18th century -- Fiction
Genre/Form Historical fiction
Historical fiction
Religious fiction.
Historical fiction
Historical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Fiction.
Reading nook.
Biographical fiction.
Author Croft, Jennifer, (Translator), translator
Cavanaugh, Meighan, illustrator
ISBN 9781922330680
192233068X
Other Titles Ksiȩgi Jakubowe. English
Fantastic journey across seven borders, five languages, and three major religions, not counting the minor sects