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Job: The Story of a Simple Man

Job: The Story of a Simple Man

by Dorothy Thompson (Translator), Michael Hofmann (Afterword), Michael Hofmann (Afterword), Dorothy Thompson (Translator), Joseph Roth (Author)

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Synopsis

'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...

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 224
 Publisher: Granta
Published: 07 Nov 2013
ISBN 10: 1847086160
ISBN 13: 9781847086167
Book Overview: 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

Author Bio
JOSEPH ROTH (1894-1939) was the great elegist of the cosmopolitan, tolerant and doomed Central European culture that flourished in the dying days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Born into a Jewish family in Galicia, on the eastern edge of the empire, he was a prolific political journalist and novelist. On Hitler's assumption of power, he was obliged to leave Germany for Paris, where he died in poverty a few years later. His books include What I Saw, Job, The White Cities, The String of Pearls and The Radetzky March, all published by Granta Books. MICHAEL HOFMANN is the highly acclaimed translator of Joseph Roth, Wolfgang Koeppen, Kafka and Brecht, and the author of several books of poems and book of criticism. He has translated nine previous books by Joseph Roth. He teaches at the University of Florida in Gainesville.