'One of the great writers of the century' - The Times
'It is not possible to do justice to Job's poetic subtlety, but I can vouch for its extraordinary merits' - Thomas Mann
Mendel Singer is pious and God-fearing. A teacher and a dutiful husband, his life is thoroughly ordinary until he is beset by a number of severe trials: he loses his family, falls terribly ill and is badly abused. His faith is strained; he needs a miracle...
A taut fable and one of Roth's most acclaimed novels, Job lays bare the experience of suffering. From the ghettos of Tsarist Russia to the unforgiving streets of New York, it is both a striking evocation of the tumultuous era Roth lived through and a timeless exploration of hope and despair at the extremity of experience.
'Extraordinary... A powerful work by a titan of early 20th-century literature' - Herald
'Roth's philosophical acuity is matched by his deep compassion for the fraily of the human condition' - Sunday Times
