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Deservedly shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2022
Jennifer Croft has been working on this long-awaited translation of Olga Tokarczuk’s epic historical novel for several years, and the result is well worth the wait. To quote from the citation from the Nobel Committee who awarded her the 2019 Literature Prize: “Her magnum opus so far is the historical novel The Books of Jacob, portraying the eighteenth century mystic and sect leader Jacob Frank. The work also gives us a remarkably rich ...more
Jennifer Croft has been working on this long-awaited translation of Olga Tokarczuk’s epic historical novel for several years, and the result is well worth the wait. To quote from the citation from the Nobel Committee who awarded her the 2019 Literature Prize: “Her magnum opus so far is the historical novel The Books of Jacob, portraying the eighteenth century mystic and sect leader Jacob Frank. The work also gives us a remarkably rich ...more
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