Nobel winner Olga Tokarczuk’s THE BOOKS OF JACOB will be published in English in late 2020 or early 2021 by Riverhead, again translated by Jennifer Croft, translator of FLIGHTS. Croft is still at work on the roughly 900-page book, winner of Poland’s Nike Literature Award in 2015, “delves into the life and times of the controversial historical figure Jacob Frank, leader of a heretical Jewish splinter group that ranged the Habsburg and Ottoman empires and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth seeking basic safety as well as transcendence.” Croft writes for the Paris Review, “Considered by many to be her masterpiece, The Books of […]
