The Books of JacobThe Nobel Prize winner's richest, most sweeping and ambitious novel yet follows the comet like rise and fall of a mysterious, messianic religious leader as he blazes his way across eighteenth century Europe. In the mid eighteenth century, as new ideas and a new unrest begin to sweep the Continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Before long, he has changed not only his name but his persona; visited by what seem to be