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The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson (Paperback, 2010)
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'He should have seen it coming. His life had been one mishap after ather. So he should have been prepared for this one'. 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 Sevick, 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 horary 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 eugh to fear the loss of it. Better, perhaps, to go through life without kwing happiness at all because that way you had less to mourn? Treslove finds he has tears eugh 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. The Finkler Question is a scorching story of exclusion and belonging, justice and love, ageing, wisdom and humanity. Funny, furious, unflinching, this extraordinary vel shows one of our finest writers at his brilliant best.Product Identifiers
PublisherBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-101408809109
ISBN-139781408809105
eBay Product ID (ePID)96341716
Product Key Features
AuthorHoward Jacobson
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicGeneral & Literary Fiction
GenreGeneral & Literary Fiction
Dimensions
Height234mm
Width153mm
Additional Product Features
Place of PublicationLondon
Spine26mm
PrizesWinner of Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2010.
Author BiographyAn award-winning writer and broadcaster, Howard Jacobson was born in Manchester, brought up in Prestwich and was educated at Stand Grammar School in Whitefield, and Downing College, Cambridge, where he studied under F. R. Leavis. He lectured for three years at the University of Sydney before returning to teach at Selwyn College, Cambridge. His novels include The Mighty Walzer (winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize), Kalooki Nights (longlisted for the Man Booker Prize) and, most recently, the highly acclaimed The Act of Love. Howard Jacobson lives in London.
Out-Of-Print Date22/10/2012
Date of Publication02/08/2010
Edition StatementExport and Uk Open Market Ed
Country of PublicationUnited Kingdom
