THE BOOK- As Germany dissolved into the nightmare of Nazism, Thomas Mann was at work on this epic recasting of the the great Bible story. Joseph, his brothers and his father Jacob, are at the prototypes of all humanity and their story is the story of life itself. Mann has taken one of the great simple chronicles of literature and filled it with psychological scope and range- its men and women are not remote figures in the Book of Genesis, but founders of states in a fresh, realisic world akin to our own .
- ISBN13 9780749386771
- Publish Date 23 October 1997 (first published 27 June 1948)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 22 August 2012
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Vintage Publishing
- Imprint Minerva
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 1232
- Language English