About the Author: Howard Jacobson
Howard Jacobson was born in Manchester, England, and educated at Cambridge. His many novels include The Mighty Walzer (winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize), Who’s Sorry Now? and Kalooki Nights (both longlisted for the Man Booker Prize), and, most recently, The Act of Love. Jacobson is also a respected critic and broadcaster, and writes a weekly column for the Independent. He lives in London.
Profile of Howard Jacobson in The New York Times.
“The book's appeal to Jewish readers is obvious, but like all great Jewish art — the paintings of Marc Chagall, the books of Saul Bellow, the films of Woody Allen — it is Jacobson's use of the Jewish experience to explain the greater human one that sets it apart. Who among us is so certain of our identity? Who hasn't been asked, "What's your background" and hesitated, even for a split second, to answer their inquisitor? Howard Jacobson's The Finkler Question forces us to ask that of ourselves, and that's why it's a must read, no matter what your background.â€â€”-David Sax, NPR.
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Find the best price forShylock is My Name (Hogarth Shakespeare)
Howard Jacobson
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Hardcover, Published in Feb 2016 by Hogarth
ISBN10: 1781090289 | ISBN13: 9781781090282
Page count: 288
In Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, merchant Antonio borrows from the Jewish moneylender Shylock, to help fund his friend Bassanio's wooing of the beautiful, prized Portia. Antonio, who makes no attempt to hide his loathing of Shylock, usury and everything Jewish, must promise in return a bond of a pound of his own flesh should he not be able to repay the debt. When Antonio's ships are lost at sea, it becomes clear he won't be able to service his debt. The case is heard at court; Antonio must honour his promise. Until an unknown lawyer arrives, talking of mercy, and picks the case apart.
Howard Jacobson takes Shakespeare's great tale of vengeance and cruelty and propels it through space and time to the shiny modern world of Cheshire's Golden Triangle. We start off in a cemetery, where a fedora'd Shylock is tending to his wife Leah's grave. From there, we meet a funny, confrontational, original cast of characters very much from our own world, who also embody and confront some of Shakespeare's most urgent questions and themes.
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