Job the story of a simple man

Joseph, Roth:

ISBN 10: 0982624603 / ISBN 13: 9780982624609

Published by Archipelago, 2010

About this Item

250 S. Translated fromthe German and with an afterword by Ross Benjamin Das Buch ist in sehr gutem, sauberen Zustand. Altersbedingt leicht getönt. Sonst sauberes und wohlerhaltenes Exemplar. ISBN: 9780982624609 Wir senden umgehend mit beiliegender MwSt.Rechnung. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 242 Taschenbuch, Maße: 13.72 cm x 1.52 cm x 17.78 cm.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Job the story of a simple man
• Publisher: Archipelago
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0982624603
• ISBN 13: 9780982624609
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1. Auflage.
• Condition: Sehr gut
• Weight: 242 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Englischsprachige Literatur

About this title

Synopsis

An Orthodox Jew encounters his biggest test of faith after moving from Tsarist Russia to New York City in this “pure, perfect” retelling of the Book of Job (Stefan Zweig)

Job is the tale of Mendel Singer, a pious, destitute Eastern-European Jew and children’s Torah teacher whose faith is tested at every turn. His youngest son seems to be incurably disabled, one of his older sons joins the Russian Army, the other deserts to America, and his daughter is running around with a Cossack. When he flees with his wife and daughter, further blows of fate await him . . .
 
In this modern fable based on the biblical story of Job, Mendel Singer witnesses the collapse of his world, experiences unbearable suffering and loss, and ultimately gives up hope and curses God, only to be saved by a miraculous reversal of fortune.

About the Author

Joseph Roth was born in 1894 in Galicia, an eastern province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. During the First World War, he abandoned his studies in Vienna to serve in the Austrian Army. He wrote thirteen novels and numerous short stories and essays. Published in 1930, Job became his first worldwide success, followed by his magnum opus, The Radetzky March, in 1932. When Hitler rose to power, Roth went into exile in Paris, where he died in 1939. Ross Benjamin is a writer and translator living in Nyack, New York. His translations include Friedrich Hölderlin's Hyperion, Kevin Vennemann's Close to Jedenew and Thomas Pletzinger's Funeral for a Dog. He was a 2003-2004 Fulbright Scholar in Berlin and won the 2010 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translation Prize for his rendering of Michael Maar's Speak, Nabokov.