by Jurek Becker · Grasset & Fasquelle · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782246407317
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«Jakob le menteur» is the historical novel by Jurek Becker, published by Grasset & Fasquelle in paperback (286 pages, in French).
In a Polish ghetto during the Second World War, Jakob Heym overhears that Russian troops are advancing and begins spreading hopeful news, though not always true, to keep up his neighbours' morale. A novel about hope and everyday heroism, with Kafkaesque humour.
Work originally published in German in 1969 under the title «Jakob der Lügner»; this French edition appeared in 1988.
For readers of historical fiction and Holocaust narratives seeking a story of hope and moral resistance.
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.
