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Archipelago Books

Job

Job

by Joseph Roth, translated from the German by Ross Benjamin

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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.

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Series: Archipelago Books
ISBN: 9780982624609
Pages: 250
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Praise

Joseph Roth was a permanent novelist. His Job was a worthy precursor of that masterpiece [The Radetzky March] . . . [Job is] both immensely sorrowful and finally strangely hopeful.
—Harold Bloom

The totality of Joseph Roth's work is no less than a tragédie humaine achieved in the techniques of modern fiction.
—Nadine Gordimer

Job is perfect. . . . a novel as lyric poem.
—Joan Acocella

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