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paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

London: Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2021. First paperback edition in English. Paperback. Nearly fine copy with one tiny ding to top front cover. Signed by the author on the publisher's bookplate affixed to the front endpaper. The Nobel Prize-winner's richest, most sweeping and ambitious novel yet follows the comet-like rise and fall of a mysterious, messianic religious leader as he blazes his way across eighteenth-century Europe. In the mid-eighteenth century, as new ideas -- and a new unrest -- 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 with throngs of disciples in his thrall as he reinvents himself again and again, converts to Islam and then Catholicism, is pilloried as a heretic… Leer más