by Rebecca Miller · Macmillan USA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781250043603
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«Jacob's Folly» is a historical and literary novel by Rebecca Miller, published by Picador (Macmillan USA) in paperback (384 pages, in English).
In eighteenth-century Jewish Paris and present-day Long Island, Jacob Cerf, a Jewish peddler reincarnated as a fly, influences the lives of a volunteer firefighter and a young Orthodox Jewish woman with a secret ambition. The novel is a tragicomedy about faith, desire, destiny, and the weight of the past.
The work was first published in 2013; this reprinted Picador edition came out on February 25, 2014.
It is suitable for readers of historical and literary fiction interested in Jewish identity, reincarnation, and satirical humor.
Rebecca Augusta Miller, Lady Day-Lewis is an American filmmaker, novelist, director, and advocate of women in the film industry. She is known for her films Angela (1995), Personal Velocity: Three Portraits (2002), The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005), The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009), Maggie's Plan (2015) and She Came to Me (2023), all of which she wrote and directed, as well as her novels The Private Lives of Pippa Lee and Jacob's Folly. Miller received the Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize for Personal Velocity and the Gotham Independent Film Award for Breakthrough Director for Angela.
