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Job

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Published : Thursday 7 November 2013
ISBN : 9781847086167
Price : €10.83


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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

'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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