From the Omniscient to the Mundane in “The Books of Jacob” – Chicago Review of Books
[ad_1] The first striking feature of The Books of Jacob—the latest book from Olga Tokarczuk and translated from the Polish by Jennifer Croft—is its length. The review copy I was mailed flopped around awkwardly in my hands in a manner reminiscent of a fish’s corpse; for the months that I carried it around, I felt … Read more