Jacob the Liar

"Published 27 years ago in Germany, 'Jacob the Liar' has achieved the status of a classic in Europe, but it is only now that we have the authorized English translation of this unforgettably odd and beautiful novel....Elementary happenings and small private feelings are to [the author] the 'true truths'. These truths unfold with the primal power of a parable....Glorification of the human spirit, in connection with something so hugely infernal as the Holocaust, has an almost unseemly quality about it, and it is not present in the voice of the book's narrator, the sole survivor of the ghetto....'Jacob the Liar' is a strange, powerful, moving work, beautifully written and well served by its translator, Leila Vennewitz."Becker, Jurek is the author of 'Jacob the Liar', published 1996 under ISBN 9781559703154 and ISBN 1559703156.