Tokarczuk’s masterwork: a thousand-page novel about Jacob Frank, the eighteenth-century Jewish mystic who led his followers through mass conversion and across half of Europe. It is enormous in every sense — in scope, in ambition, in the sheer density of its ideas. And yet it moves. The narrative shifts between dozens of voices across decades, and Jennifer Croft’s translation holds all of it together with remarkable steadiness.
This is the kind of book that makes you reconsider what a novel can do. It won the Nobel Prize committee’s attention for good reason. Clear your schedule, find a comfortable chair, and begin.
Year 2021
Price £16.99
Category Literary Fiction