by Jurek Becker · Suhrkamp Verlag · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783518372746
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«Jakob der Lügner» is the novel by German writer Jurek Becker, published by Suhrkamp Verlag in paperback (288 pages, in German).
In a ghetto of an occupied Polish city, during the Second World War, Jakob Heym discovers that the Red Army is advancing and tells the others. To make them believe him, he claims to have a radio; his invented news sustains the hope of a community on the brink of despair. A story about compassionate lying and moral resistance.
The novel was originally published in 1969 and belongs to number 774 of the Suhrkamp Taschenbuch collection.
Regular reading in German schools, for those seeking German literary classics about the Second World War and the Holocaust.
Jurek Becker was a Polish-born German writer, screenwriter and East German dissident. His most famous novel is Jacob the Liar, which has been made into two films. He lived in Łódź during World War II for about two years and survived the Holocaust.
