Boxwalla Book Box February 2022 Full Spoilers!

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We have the book spoilers for February 2022 Boxwalla Book Box, a fiction book subscription that also focuses on diversity! For the February 2022 box, Boxwalla Book Box subscribers will have the option to pick one of their book choices, and Boxwalla will another for you!

The February Book Box will contain 2 amazing books, but with a twist! You can choose 1 book and we will choose 1 book for you!

HOW TO PICK YOUR BOOK CHOICE: If you already have a current book subscription, you can log into your account and choose your book from the ‘My Subscriptions’ page (Manage Subscriptions ->My Subscriptions). You will find a ‘Switch Type’ link with a drop-down, next to your Book Subscription, and you can pick your Book Choice there.

Here are the books this February that subscribers get to choose ONE from:

The FIXED book that we have chosen for you, in the February Book Box, is Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarckzuk’s much-awaited masterpiece: Books of Jacob!

AND you will get to choose ONE of the following THREE books:

In detail:

Everyone will receive:

Olga Tokarczuk’s The Books of Jacob

The book we have chosen, that will be in every February Book Box is 2018 Nobel Prize winner, Olga Tokarczuk’s The Books of Jacob! We first showcased Olga Tokarczuk in 2017 with her House of Day, House of Night and she is back in our Book Box with a much-awaited new release.

The Books of Jacob was first published in 2014 in Polish and we have been WAITING for it to be translated and released in English. And it’s finally here with a U.S. release date of February 2022!

A rich, sweeping novel, that is said to be her most ambitious work, The Books of Jacob is set in the mid 18th century, and follows the life of Jacob Frank, a young Jewish man who arrives in a village in Poland.

Book Choice 1 is British writer, Elizabeth Taylor’s Mrs. Palfrey at The Claremont.

This humorous yet heartbreaking novel was included in Guardian’s ‘The 100 Best Novels Written in English’. It is Elizabeth Taylor’s final and most popular novel. This edition was released by NYRB, just this December.

Here’s how it begins: “Mrs. Palfrey first came to the Claremont Hotel on a Sunday afternoon in January. Rain had closed in over London, and her taxi sloshed along the almost deserted Cromwell Road, past one cavernous porch after another, the driver going slowly and poking his head out into the wet, for the hotel was not known to him. This discovery, that he didn’t know, had a little disconcerted Mrs. Palfrey, for she did not know it either, and began to wonder what she was coming to. She tried to banish terror from her heart. She was alarmed at the threat of her own depression.

If it’s not nice, I needn’t stay, she promised herself…”

Book Choice 2 is Turkish writer Suat Dervis’ In the Shadow of the Yali.

Suat Dervis is one of the leading female authors of Turkish literature. This wonderful novel, set in a changing Istanbul of the1940’s, tells the story of forbidden love and of its consequences. The English translation was published in the U.S. last September by Other Press.

Here’s an excerpt“She loved looking at the opposite shore, and the blue waters of the Bosphorus, only rarely becalmed, almost always racing in one direction or the other.

She loved standing at the door of the black kitchen watching the cook among his great vats and strange copper tools

He would talk to himself, this cook, and scold the ghosts of his old apprentices.”

Book Choice 3 is Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke’s Duino Elegies.

In 1931, Virginia and Leonard Woolf’s Hogarth Press published a small run of a beautiful edition of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Duino Elegies, in English translation by the writers Vita and Edward Sackville-West. This marked the English debut of Rilke’s masterpiece which has since been translated about twenty times.

This edition (due to be released in February), is a reissue by Pushkin Press of that first-ever English translation, published now, for the first time in 90 years.

Boxwalla offers subscription boxes and limited edition boxes. Boxwalla Book Box is $29.95 every other month, and comes with 2 books by writers from all over the world. See all our Boxwalla Book Box reviews here!

December box orders are now open – you can secure yours here!

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