Read The Books of Jacob

Fragments about travel, anatomy and a Chopin's heart smuggled to Warsaw; Tokarczuk's Booker International.

An old woman in a Silesian village and hunters who keep dying; Tokarczuk's eco-thriller.

A Roman patrician and a Christian girl under Nero; Sienkiewicz's Nobel.

Oskar stops growing at three and drums through Danzig's twentieth century; Grass's Nobel.

Jean Valjean, a loaf of bread and nineteen years; Hugo's Paris from the sewers to the barricades.

A poet-doctor and Lara through the revolution and civil war; smuggled out and given the Nobel.

One ordinary day in a Siberian labour camp; the book that told the USSR about the Gulag.

Sethe, a runaway slave, and the ghost of the daughter she killed; Morrison's masterpiece.