This exclusive limited edition is the only hardback version published (it was released only as a paperback) of. 275 x 175 mm. Enlarged from the paperback version available in bookstores. Numbered and signed by the author. Limited to 1000 copies. Book-block with exposed binding. An exposed binding celebrates the grand scale and literary gravitas of this epic publication from one of the world’s most gifted novelists. The Books of Jacob was first published in Polish in 2014. 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. Features an open binding, exposing the page signatures and stitching of the book-block. This is housed in a handmade case, covered in a specially dyed’Fitzcarraldo blue’ cloth. In the mid-eighteenth century, as new ideas begin to sweep the continent, a young Jewish man of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. 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 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. Follows 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. This item is in the category “Books, Comics & Magazines\Antiquarian & Collectable”. The seller is “booko28″ and is located in this country: GB. This item can be shipped to United Kingdom, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Republic of Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Australia, United States, Bahrain, Canada, Brazil, Japan, New Zealand, China, Israel, Hong Kong, Norway, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, Singapore, South Korea, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Bangladesh, Bermuda, Bolivia, Barbados, Brunei Darussalam, Cayman Islands, Ecuador, Egypt, Guernsey, Gibraltar, Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Iceland, Jersey, Jordan, Cambodia, Liechtenstein, Sri Lanka, Macau, Monaco, Maldives, Martinique, Nicaragua, Oman, Pakistan, Peru, Paraguay, Reunion, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, United Arab Emirates, Chile, Bahamas, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Kuwait, Panama, Philippines, Qatar, Trinidad and Tobago, Vietnam.
- Modified Item: Yes
- Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
- Fiction Subject: Modern Literature
- Binding: Hardback
- Author: Olga Tokarczuk
- Modification Description: Signed and numbered
- Language: English
- Signed: Yes
- Publisher: Volume
- Special Attributes: Collectors Edition, Clamshell, 1st Edition, Limited Edition, Luxury Edition, Numbered
