Many years ago there lived in Zuchnow,in Russia,a man named Mendel Signer. He was pious,God-fearing and ordinary,an entirely commonplace Jew...'So Roth begins his novel about the loss of faith and the experience of suffering. His modern Job goes through his trials in the ghettos of Tsarist Russia and on the unforgiving streets of New York. Mendel Singer loses his family,falls terribly ill and is badly abused. He needs a miracle...
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Publisher: Granta BooksISBN: 9781783788491Number of pages: 224Weight: 173 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 14 mm
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Extraordinary... A powerful work by a titan of early 20th-century literature(A) tender fable.... Dorothy Thompson's translation is enthrallingOne of the great European novelists of the centuryRoth... can pack more into a few pages than lesser writers can do in a few hundred. But his lightness of touch has a deceptive historical weightRoth is one of those rare and welcome talents whose concision and deceptive simplicity send the cogs of the imagination whizzing into overdriveEnthralling... Roth's most perfect bookOne of the great writers of the century'It is not possible to do justice to Job's poetic subtlety,but I can vouch for its extraordinary meritsRoth's philosophical acuity is matched by his deep compassion for the frailty of the human conditionThere are some books that seem sacrosanct and one of them is JobRoth,above all,is a consistently magnificent writer of prose
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