A faithful husband takes the dangerous step of asking for a piece of his philandering friend’s disordered life, in Howard Jacobson’s bawdy comic tale
Howard Jacobson
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Howard Jacobson has written 16 novels and five works of non-fiction
He won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Award in 2000 for The Mighty Walzer and then again in 2013 for Zoo Time. In 2010 he won the Booker Prize for The Finkler Question; he was also shortlisted for the prize in 2014 for J.
The Finkler Question
Winner of The Booker Prize 2010
- Published by
- Bloomsbury
A scorching story of friendship and loss, exclusion and belonging, and of the wisdom and humanity of maturity, from the brilliant Howard Jacobson
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Wild, angry and uproarious, Kalooki Nights is Howard Jacobson’s darkly comic novel of what it means to be human
In his dystopian drama, Howard Jacobson has created a thought-provoking love story of incomparable strangeness, both tender and terrifying
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