Winner of the Man Book Prize 2010
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 very different lives, they've never quite lost touch with each other - or with their former teacher, Libor Sevcik.
Both Libor and Finkler are recently widowed, and together with Treslove they share a sweetly painful evening revisiting a time before they had loved and lost. It is that very evening, when Treslove hesitates a moment as he walks home, that he is attacked - and his whole sense of who and what he is slowly and ineluctably changes.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9781408809938
Number of pages: 384
Weight: 280 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 20 mm
‘How is it possible to read Howard Jacobson and not lose oneself in admiration for the music of his language, the power of his characterisation and the penetration of his insight? ... The Finkler Question is further proof, if any was needed, of Jacobson's mastery of humour' - The Times
Wonderful ... Jacobson is seriously on form' - Evening Standard
‘There are few writers who exhibit the same unawed respect for language or such a relentless commitment to re-examining even the most seemingly unobjectionable of received wisdoms' - Daily Telegraph
'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' - Observer
Gave up on this one half way through.
Although I haven't finished this book yet, I am going to write this review anyway. It is well written but it is not a book I cannot put down. The Waterstone job was done well in that it arrived on time and... More
Unlike the previous reviewer, for me this book was un-put-downable. The style of writing is so unique, the subjects and storyline held my interest. Lots of theology and philosophy with characters who are portrayed... More
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