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35 hours, 38 minutes • first pub 2014 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780593395264
Format: Audio
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Edition Pub Date: 01 February 2022
The Books of Jacob suits the reader who enjoys inhabiting a vast, 18th-century panorama told backward (literally paginated in reverse) while eavesdropping on a shape-shifting messiah through the clashing testimonies of believers, enemies, and one skeptical woman who sees through him.
Description
The Nobel Prize–winner’s richest, most sweeping and ambitious novel yet follows the comet-like rise and fall of a mysterious, messianic religious leader as he blazes his way across eighteenth-century Europe. In the mid-eighteenth century, as new ...
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Moods
challenging: 82%
reflective: 60%
informative: 56%
mysterious: 37%
adventurous: 28%
dark: 25%
emotional: 15%
sad: 10%
tense: 7%
funny: 6%
inspiring: 4%
hopeful: 2%
Pace
Plot or character driven?
Strong character development?
Loveable characters?
Diverse cast of characters?
Flaws of characters a main focus?
Content Warnings
Submitted by users as part of their reviews
Graphic
Antisemitism, Adult/minor relationship, IncestModerate
Religious bigotry, Miscarriage, Emotional abuseMinor
Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual content
35 hours, 38 minutes • first pub 2014 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780593395264
Format: Audio
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Edition Pub Date: 01 February 2022
The Books of Jacob suits the reader who enjoys inhabiting a vast, 18th-century panorama told backward (literally paginated in reverse) while eavesdropping on a shape-shifting messiah through the clashing testimonies of believers, enemies, and one skeptical woman who sees through him.
Description
The Nobel Prize–winner’s richest, most sweeping and ambitious novel yet follows the comet-like rise and fall of a mysterious, messianic religious leader as he blazes his way across eighteenth-century Europe. In the mid-eighteenth century, as new ...
Community Reviews
Moods
challenging: 82%
reflective: 60%
informative: 56%
mysterious: 37%
adventurous: 28%
dark: 25%
emotional: 15%
sad: 10%
tense: 7%
funny: 6%
inspiring: 4%
hopeful: 2%
Pace
Plot or character driven?
Strong character development?
Loveable characters?
Diverse cast of characters?
Flaws of characters a main focus?
Content Warnings
Submitted by users as part of their reviews
Graphic
Antisemitism, Adult/minor relationship, IncestModerate
Religious bigotry, Miscarriage, Emotional abuseMinor
Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual content