For the avid reader, discerning collector and real literature / Olga Tolkarczuk - fan (to be),
a new, signed, boxed, limited edition hardcover copy of
Olga Tolkarczuk
The Books of Jacob
Translated by Jennifer Croft
Volume / Fitzcarraldo Editions, London / UK, 2022
"Enlarged from the paperback version available in
bookstores, Volume’s elegant boxed edition is covered in real cloth
specially dyed in the coveted Fitzcarraldo colourway – Yves Klein blue –
and adorned with its trademark logo, inspired by the imprints of early
printing presses. 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.
Tokarczuk’s ninth novel runs to over 900 pages and is described by many
as her magnum opus.
This edition is not available for purchase in the United States, U.S.
Territories and possessions, Canada, Australia or New Zealand." (https://vol.co)
Your copy is new and still in the publishers shrink-wrap (see first four photos of the actual copy for sale). The last photo is by the publisher.
"In the mid-eighteenth century, as new ideas begin to sweep the
continent, a young Jew 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.
In The Books of Jacob, her masterpiece,
2018 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Olga Tokarczuk writes 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." (fitzcarraldoeditions.com)
"Olga Tokarczuk is the author of nine novels, three short-story
collections and has been translated into forty-five languages. Her novel
Flights won the 2018 International Booker Prize, in Jennifer
Croft’s translation. In 2019, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in
Literature. The Books of Jacob is her third book with Fitzcarraldo Editions.
Jennifer Croft was awarded the International Booker Prize in 2018 and
was a National Book Award Finalist for her translation from Polish of
Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights. She is the recipient of Fulbright,
PEN, MacDowell, and National Endowment for the Arts grants and
fellowships, as well as the inaugural Michael Henry Heim Prize for
Translation and a Tin House Workshop Scholarship for her memoir Homesick." (https://vol.co)