KSIEGI JAKUBOWE(THE BOOKS OF JACOB)
Book ID/图书代码: 11701218C00077
English Summary/英文概要: Rok 1752. Do Rohatyna na Podolu przybywaja kasztelanowa Katarzyna Kossakowska i towarzyszaca jej poetka Elzbieta Druzbacka. Jednym z gosci na powitalnej kolacji jest miejscowy proboszcz Benedykt Chmielowski, autor pierwszej polskiej encyklopedii. Ksiadz i poetka, osoby rozmilowane w ksiegach, szybko znajduja wspólny jezyk - rozpoczynaja rozmowe, która pózniej kontynuowac beda w listach.
Nieco pózniej, takze na Podolu, pojawia sie mlody, przystojny i charyzmatyczny Zyd - Jakub Lejbowicz Frank. Tajemniczy przybysz z odleglej Smyrny zaczyna glosic idee, które szybko dziela spolecznosc zydowska. Dla jednych heretyk, dla innych zbawca juz niebawem ma wokól siebie krag oddanych sobie uczniów, zas wywolany przezen ferment moze odmienic bieg historii.
Niemal tysiac stron, kilkadziesiat watków i postaci - Ksiegi Jakubowe imponuja literackim rozmachem, wieloscia poziomów i mozliwych interpretacji. Olga Tokarczuk pelnymi garsciami czerpie z tradycji powiesci historycznej, poszerzajac jednoczesnie jej granice gatunkowe. Z ogromna dbaloscia o szczególy przedstawia realia epoki, architekture, ubiory, zapachy. Odwiedzamy szlacheckie dwory, katolickie plebanie i zydowskie domostwa, rozmodlone i zanurzone w lekturze tajemniczych pism. Na oczach czytelników pisarka tka obraz dawnej Polski, w której egzystowaly obok siebie chrzescijanstwo, judaizm, a takze islam.
Ksiegi Jakubowe to nie tylko powiesc o przeszlosci. Mozna ja czytac równiez jako refleksyjne, momentami mistyczne dzielo o samej historii, jej zakretach i trybach, które decyduja o losach calych narodów. To wlasnie w polowie XVIII wieku, u progu Oswiecenia i przed rozbiorami, wybitna pisarka poszukuje odpowiedzi na pytania o dzisiejszy ksztalt naszej czesci Europy.
Chinese Summary/中文概要:
Awards/获奖情况:Shortlisted for the International Booker Award 2022
‘With Tokarczuk, the Nobel Prizes haven’t only chosen
a woman writer. They have chosen a woman of our
century. Olga Tokarczuk has marked our time ...with an
unforgettable poetry and narrative force.’ L’Obs
‘Olga Tokarczuk’s magnum opus The Books of Jacob can
be read as an epic response to the growing intolerance
and spiritual-moral narrowing of the present’ Die Welt
‘Magnificent’ Dagens Nyheter
The US publication was 1st February and the reviews have been excellent, starting with this fantastic review by Dwight Garner in the New York Times:
< https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/24/books/review-books-of-jacob-olga-tokarczuk.html >
“[Tokarczuk’s] career was, and is, in full gallop… If you sense you are about to step into a sword-and-sandal epic with a mud room, you would not be altogether wrong. If you detect a saving, dill-scented note of satire, you would not be wrong either…“The Books of Jacob” is an unruly, overwhelming, vastly eccentric novel. It’s sophisticated and ribald and brimming with folk wit…It’s Chaucerian in its brio… Jennifer Croft’s sensitive translation is in tune with the author’s many registers; she even makes the puns click…This novel’s density is saturnalian; its satire nimble; academics will tug at its themes, as if they were pinworms, for decades.”
Olga Tokarczuk is on the Booker International shortlist for BOOKS OF JACOB!
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/07/books/international-booker-prize-shortlist-tokarczuk.html
About the Author/作者介绍: Olga Tokarczuk (born 1962) is the best-selling author of four previous novels (The Journey of the People of the Book, Primeval and Other Times (to be published in English in 2009 by Twisted Spoon, Prague), E.E. and House of Day, House of Night) and two sets of short stories (The Cupboard and Playing Many Drums). Her latest novel, Runners (2008) won her Poland’s top literary award, the Nike prize.
Her books have won several other major prizes in Poland and abroad, and have been translated into a dozen languages. Notably, the English-language edition of House of Day, House of Night (Granta and Northwestern UP, 2002), was shortlisted for the IMPAC Literary Award. Rights for foreign editions of Final Stories have already been sold to publishers in Germany, France, Holland, Slovenia, Ukraine and Croatia.
Format:HARDCOVER
Rights Status/版权销售情况:Simplified Chinese/简体中文:SOLD
Complex/Traditional Chinese/繁体中文:SOLD
Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况:Poland: Literackie
Belarus: Ihar Lohvinau
Brazil: Todavia
China: Zhejiang Art &
Literature
Croatia: Fraktura
Czech Republic: Host
France: Noir sur Blanc
Georgia: Intelekti
Greece: Kastaniotis
Hungary: Vince Kiado
Israel: Carmel
Italy: Bompiani
Japan: Hakusuisha
Lithuania: Lithuania
Writer’s Union
Netherlands: De Geus
Norway: Gyldendal
Romania: Polirom
Russia: Eksmo
Slovenia: KUD
Spain: Anagrama
Sweden: Albert Bonnier
Switzerland (German):
Kampa
UK: Fitzcarraldo
Ukraine: Tempora
US: Riverhead
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