Name: Howard Jacobson - The Finkler Question (2nd Hand Hardback)
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SKU: B000579
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Howard Jacobson - The Finkler Question (2nd Hand Hardback)

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Synopsis

The Finkler Question is a 2010 novel written by British author Howard Jacobson. The novel won the Man Booker Prize.

Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular and disappointed BBC worker, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school friends.

Despite a prickly relationship and very different lives, they've never quite lost touch with each other - or with their former teacher, Libor Sevcik, a Czechoslovakian always more concerned with the wider world than with exam results. Now, both Libor and Finkler are recently widowed, and with Treslove, his chequered and unsuccessful record with women rendering him an honorary third widower, they dine at Libor's grand, central London apartment.

It's a sweetly painful evening of reminiscence in which all three remove themselves to a time before they had loved and lost; a time before they had fathered children, before the devastation of separations, before they had prized anything greatly enough to fear the loss of it.

Better, perhaps, to go through life without knowing happiness at all because that way you had less to mourn? Treslove finds he has tears enough for the unbearable sadness of both his friends' losses. And it's that very evening, at exactly 11:30pm, as Treslove hesitates a moment outside the window of the oldest violin dealer in the country as he walks home, that he is attacked.

After this, his whole sense of who and what he is will slowly and ineluctably change.

Details

Format : Standard 2nd Hand Hardback with Dust Jacket
Condition : Very Good
Category : Fiction - Modern Mainstream Fiction
Published : 2010 (Bloomsbury)
ISBN : 9781408808870
SKU : B000579
PPC : SP590gm
RRP : Unknown
Quantity Available : 1 only.

External Reviews

'Full of wit, warmth, intelligence, human feeling and understanding. It is also beautifully written with that sophisticated and near invisible skill of the authentic writer.' - The Observer.

'Wonderful . . . Jacobson is seriously on form.' - Evening Standard.

The Author

Howard Eric Jacobson is a British novelist and journalist. He is known for writing comic novels that often revolve around the dilemmas of British Jewish characters. He is a Man Booker Prize winner.