Job : The Story of a Simple Man - Joseph Roth

Job

The Story of a Simple Man

By: Joseph Roth, Dorothy Thompson (Translator)

Paperback | 5 October 2022

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A taut fable and one of Roth's most acclaimed novels, which follows pious and god-fearing Job from the ghettos of Tsarist Russia to the unforgiving streets of New York.

'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...

About the Author

JOSEPH ROTH (1894-1939) was a prolific journalist and novelist. One of the greatest writers of the 20th Century, his work traces the decline of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the rising fascist threat in Europe. 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.

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