by Joseph Roth · Adelphi · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788845909153
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«Giobbe. Romanzo di un uomo semplice» is the novel by Joseph Roth, published by Adelphi in paperback (195 pages, in Italian).
The novel follows Mendel Singer, a humble Bible teacher in a small town in Russian Volhynia, whose quiet life is shattered when his fourth child, Menuchim, is born with a disability. Misfortunes pile up and Mendel ends up emigrating to New York, while his family is struck by war, death and madness.
Novel originally published in 1930 as «Hiob: Roman eines einfachen Mannes»; this Italian edition, translated by Laura Terreni, belongs to the Gli Adelphi collection (no. 38).
Recommended for readers of classic fiction and for those interested in Jewish literature and emigration.
Moses Joseph Roth was a Austro-Hungarian journalist and novelist, best known for his family saga Radetzky March (1932), about the decline and fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, his novel of Jewish life Job (1930) and his seminal essay "Juden auf Wanderschaft", a fragmented account of the Jewish migrations from eastern to western Europe in the aftermath of World War I and the Russian Revolution. In the 21st century, publications in English of Radetzky March and of collections of his journalism from Berlin and Paris created a revival of interest in Roth.
