Olga Tokarczuk's whirlwind tour of the 18th century
- Written by Isabelle Hesse, Senior lecturer, University of Sydney
The death of Jacob Frank.Wikimedia commonsNobel-Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk’s epic experimental novel The Books of Jacob is – perhaps unsurprisingly, given its title – a book about reading and writing.
At the centre of the novel are the Frankists, an 18th and 19th century Jewish religious sect. Within the more than 900 pages of...





