Job

Job

by JosephRoth (Author), Dorothy Thompson (Translator)

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
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Granta Books
Published: 16 Oct 2000

ISBN 10: 1862073783
ISBN 13: 9781862073784

Author Bio
Joseph Roth was born in Galicia, then the poorest province of the Hapsburg Empire, in 1894. He worked as a journalist in Vienna and Bonn, and also wrote thirteen novels. After 1933 he lived in Paris, where he was identified with the anti-Nazi opposition. He is now considered one of the twentieth-century's finest writers.