![]() In the beginning, I thought that it will be small essay about the story of him. I was really fascinated by this story, by the figure of Jacob Frank. It's so called (speaking Polish) in Polish because it was written in Polish, which means, Jennifer? Once, I found out somewhere in the small bookstore a book written by the disciples of Jacob Frank. TOKARCZUK: That was a little bit by accident. ![]() How did you come across the words and the world of Jacob Frank? SIMON: Olga Tokarczuk, I'm worn out with superlatives just from introducing you. JENNIFER CROFT: Thank you so much for having us. Thank you both very much for being with us. ![]() And Olga Tokarczuk and Jennifer Croft join us now. It is the first Olga Tokarczuk novel to appear in English since she won the 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature. ![]() ![]() It tells the story of Jacob Frank, an 18th century religious leader - or heretic or charlatan, or all of the above - who draws adherents and alarms authorities in a movement that sweeps through the villages of Poland, Ukraine, Galicia and the Habsburg Empire. "The Books Of Jacob" by Olga Tokarczuk is a colossal work - an epic, a fable, a history, sometimes a satire, always a magnum opus. ![]()
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