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Job
The Story of a Simple Man, Originaltitel:Hiob
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Artikel-Nr:
9781847086167
Veröffentl:
2013
Seiten:
224
Autor:
Joseph Roth
Gewicht:
170 g
Format:
197x132x16 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Joseph Roth, geb. 1894 in Galizien als Sohn jüdischer Eltern, studierte Literaturwissenschaften in Wien und Lemberg. Teilnahme am Ersten Weltkrieg. Ab 1918 Journalist in Wien, dann Berlin, 1923-32 Korrespondent der Frankfurter Zeitung. 1933 Emigration nach Frankreich. Starb 1939 im Alter von nur 45 Jahren in Paris.
Reissue of Joseph Roth's prominent novel which explores the loss of faith and the experience of suffering, now with a new cover as part of Granta's Roth revival. Translated by Dorothy Thompson.
'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.
With a new introduction by Michael Hofmann, a reissue of one of Roth's most prominent novels, which explores the loss of faith and the experience of suffering