by Howard Jacobson · Bloomsbury Paperbacks · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781408809938
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«The Finkler Question» is Howard Jacobson's literary fiction novel, published by Bloomsbury Paperbacks in paperback (384 pages, in English).
Julian Treslove, a former BBC producer, and Sam Finkler, a Jewish philosopher and television personality, have been friends since school, bonded with their teacher Libor Sevcik. After a dinner evoking the past and widowhood, Treslove is assaulted on the street, changing his identity. The novel explores friendship, loss, Jewishness, and belonging.
Winner of the Man Booker Prize in 2010, the novel was originally published that same year; this edition dates from May 2011.
For book clubs and readers of contemporary fiction who appreciate humour and reflection.
Howard Eric Jacobson is a British novelist and journalist. He writes comic novels that often revolve around the dilemmas of British Jewish characters. He is a Man Booker Prize winner.
