{"product_id":"the-books-of-jacob","title":"The Books of Jacob","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the mid-eighteenth century  as new ideas begin to sweep the continent  a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Before long  he has changed not only his name but his persona; visited by what seem to be ecstatic experiences  Jacob Frank casts a charismatic spell that attracts an increasingly fervent following. In the decade to come  Frank will traverse the Hapsburg and Ottoman empires  throngs of disciples in his thrall as he reinvents himself again and again  converts to Islam and then Catholicism  is pilloried as a heretic and revered as the Messiah  and wreaks havoc on the conventional order  Jewish and Christian alike  with scandalous rumours of his sects secret rituals and the spread of his increasingly iconoclastic beliefs. In The Books of Jacob  her masterpiece  2018 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Olga Tokarczuk writes the story of Frank through the perspectives of his contemporaries  capturing Enlightenment Europe on the cusp of precipitous change  searching for certainty and longing for transcendence.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44946457198645,"sku":"ByrdShop_1910695599","price":70.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781910695593_4641b914-531a-44ab-9c45-ae25f9e50654.jpg?v=1770143761","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-books-of-jacob","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}