Job

Resumen del libro

'Many years ago there lived in Zuchnow, in Russia, a man named Mendel Signer. He was pious, God-fearing and ordinary, an entirely commonplace Jew...'So Roth begins his novel about the loss of faith and the experience of suffering. His modern Job goes through his trials in the ghettos of Tsarist Russia and on the unforgiving streets of New York.

Mendel Singer loses his family, falls terribly ill and is badly abused. He needs a miracle...

Biografía del autor

Joseph Roth nació en la provincia austríaca de Galitzia en 1894, de padres judíos. Estudió literatura y filosofía en Lemberg y en Viena. Tras servir en la Primera Guerra Mundial, trabajó como periodista, alcanzó un notable éxito con su escritura, y es considerado uno de los grandes autores en lengua alemana. Murió exiliado en París en 1939.