"In 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 with 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 rumors of his sect's secret rituals and the spread of his increasingly iconoclastic beliefs"--
Biografie (Olga Tokarczuk)
Olga Tokarczuk, geboren 1962, studierte Psychologie in Warschau und gilt als eine der interessantesten polnischen Autorinnen. Ihre Bücher wurden bereits mehrfach mit Preisen bedacht und sind bei Kritikern wie Lesern gleichermaßen erfolgreich. 2008 wurde Olga Tokarczuk mit dem Samuel-Bogumil-Linde-Preis für Literatur ausgezeichnet.
