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Job
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An Orthodox Jew encounters his biggest test of faith after moving from Tsarist Russia to New York City in this “pure, perfect” retelling of the Book of Job (Stefan Zweig)
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.
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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Felipec
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“The life of a simple man, fearful of God and whose life is full of misfortunes. It has a slow start but once you get used to that, it reads quite nice. I don’t really love characters with religion so firmly ingrained within them but this story was a fun reinterpretation of the book of Job.”
“Un libro entretenido. Una historia familiar de pérdidas y de encuentros.”Andrea Torres
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“La historia de un profesor judío, su familia, la pobreza, la migración, la guerra, América, la familia.
Una vida llena de dolor y tristeza, y un milagro. Un regalo en la vejez para darle sentido a la muerte.
Roth retoma con cierta sutileza la historia de Job y sus infortunios, la pérdida de la fe y la experiencia del sufrimiento.
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"Fue como un segundo matrimonio, repetido, esta vez con la fealdad, con la amargura, con el progresivo envejecimiento de su mujer."
"Se sentía como expulsado de sí mismo; separado de sí, así tendría que vivir a partir de entonces. (...) Ya estaba solo, él, Mendel Singer: ya estaba en América."
"Como dos chispitas nos hemos apagado. He engendrado hijos, tu vientre los ha parido, la muerte se los ha llevado. Llena de penurias y carente de sentido ha sido tu vida."”
LaritaLectora
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“Este ha sido un viaje. Muy tranquilo y muy humano. Con desdichas y alegría.
Me sorprendió conectar tanto con la historia y los personajes siendo que este libro apenas tiene diálogos.
Me pareció una historia muy real. Algo que nos pudo haber pasado a ti o a mí, o a nuestros abuelos.”Laurel
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About Joseph Roth
Joseph Roth was born in 1894 in Galicia, an eastern province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. During the First World War, he abandoned his studies in Vienna to serve in the Austrian Army. He wrote thirteen novels and numerous short stories and essays. Published in 1930, Job became his first worldwide success, followed by his magnum opus, The Radetzky March, in 1932. When Hitler rose to power, Roth went into exile in Paris, where he died in 1939. Ross Benjamin is a writer and translator living in Nyack, New York. His translations include Friedrich Hölderlin's Hyperion, Kevin Vennemann's Close to Jedenew and Thomas Pletzinger's Funeral for a Dog. He was a 2003-2004 Fulbright Scholar in Berlin and won the 2010 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translation Prize for his rendering of Michael Maar's Speak, Nabokov.
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