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The Finkler Question
by Jacobson, Howard
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine Condition
- ISBN 10
- 1608196119
- ISBN 13
- 9781608196111
- Seller
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About This Item
Bloomsbury Publishing, New York, 2010. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine Condition. Second impression of the First Edition. Size: Octavo 8vo (standard book size). 307 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. This BOOK IS IN STOCK and READY TO MAIL NOW. Your book when ordered will be securely packed and promptly dispatched by Great Southern Books. Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC radio producer, 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 lost touch with each other, or with their former teacher, Libor Sevcik. The Finkler Question is a funny, furious, unflinching novel of friendship and loss, exclusion and belonging, and the wisdom and humanity of maturity. Winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; Britain/UK; Modern; ISBN: . ISBN/EAN: 9781608196111. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 4552. . 9781608196111
Synopsis
Howard Jacobson is a British journalist and author. He is best known for writing comic novels that often revolve around the dilemmas of British Jewish characters. He is the 2010 winner of the Man Booker prize for The Finkler Question. This novel takes on the challenges of love, male friendship and loss as it explores the relationship between a radio producer and philosopher, while questioning what it means to be Jewish today. It’s described as a bright, witty novel with some of the most sharply intelligent writing to date. The book follows the character of Julian Treslove, once of the BBC and now earning a living as a celebrity lookalike. Treslove is not Jewish but, in simple terms, the narrative details his love affair with an intense inquiry into what Jewishness means – politically, socially, economically, romantically, intellectually, emotionally, culturally, musically and so on. He wants to be part of something vast and ageless, something abounding and intense. In short, he is trying to become Jewish.
Reviews
On Nov 20 2013, CloggieDownunder said:
The Finkler Question is the fourteenth book by Howard Jacobson, and winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize. There are three main characters: Julian Treslove, who wants to be a Jew; Sam Finkler, a Jew who is ashamed of Jews; and Libor Sevcik, a Czech Jew who is grieving the loss of his wife. This unlikely trio have known one another for many years, and in the first part, each looks back on events in their lives. The second part concerns the events after Julian is mugged, he believes, for being a Jew, and introduces a new love interest for him, a Jewess names Hephzibah, someone he feels is his destiny. This novel is very slow-moving, there is very little in the way of plot and while some of the dialogue is clever, amusing or even thought-provoking, many of the characters are difficult to relate to. Perhaps to fully appreciate this book, one would need to be a Jewish intellectual, preferably a British one. Lots of Jewish angst, talk of foreskins, anti-Semitic violence and Holocaust denial. This Man Booker Prizewinner fails to impress.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Southern Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4552
- Title
- The Finkler Question
- Author
- Jacobson, Howard
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1608196119
- ISBN 13
- 9781608196111
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2010
- Keywords
- BZDB137 howard jacobson, fiction, booker prize, Fiction; Britain/UK; Modern; EAN: 9781608196111 Jacobson, Howard The Finkler Question
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