Jacob's Folly

by Rebecca Miller

Book Overview

In Rebecca Miller's dazzling and inventive new novel, we meet characters separated by time but united in their desire to live a life of their own choosing, free from the constraints of community and tradition.

In eighteenth-century Paris, Jacob Cerf is a Jewish street peddler burdened by a disastrous young marriage but determined to raise himself up by whatever means he can. His richly observed life in Paris' Jewish ghetto is radically altered...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250043603
• ISBN13: 9781250043603
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.3"