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| Original Title: | The Finkler Question |
| ISBN: | 1408808870 (ISBN13: 9781408808870) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Julian Treslove, Sam Finkler, Libor Sevcik, Hephzibah Weizenbaum |
| Literary Awards: | Booker Prize (2010), Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize Nominee (2011), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2012) |
Howard Jacobson
Hardcover | Pages: 307 pages Rating: 2.79 | 13777 Users | 2073 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Finkler Question |
| Author | : | Howard Jacobson |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 307 pages |
| Published | : | August 2nd 2010 by Bloomsbury (first published 2010) |
| Categories | : | Fiction |
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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 Sevcik, 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 honorary 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 enough to fear the loss of it. Better, perhaps, to go through life without knowing happiness at all because that way you had less to mourn? Treslove finds he has tears enough 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.Rating Out Of Books The Finkler Question
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my 2nd booker prize winner (2010) in about as many days. winning has caused quite a bit a controversy and even before winning lots of ink spilled debating whether this was any good and antisemitism in UK, and self-anti-semitism (a la tony judt The Memory Chalet ) and zionoism/israeliism (a la grossman To the End of the Land ) and racism in general in uk especially (a la malkani Londonstani and barnes Arthur & George ) and passing and friendship and sex and polemics and much more. fun howMost Booker winners are great pieces of literature. Unfortunately some years its lacking. Like this winning, On Chesil Beach losing out to Anne
The Booker Prize serves me as a deterrent
Julian Treslove is a 49 year old Gentile living in present day London whose life has been a series of disappointments: he has movie star good looks but can't seem to sustain a relationship with a woman for more than a few months; he was let go from his production job at the BBC for his overly morbid programs on Radio 3, a station known for its solemnity; and he has fathered two boys, who ridicule and despise him. Even worse, he compares poorly to his friend, rival, and former school classmate
I really enjoyed this book. It's very different but very interesting. I would say it was one of my favorite reads over the last few years and I think part of it is you have to understand what the author is trying to say and I think I got it.
The Holocaust had become negotiable. She had recently run into her ex-husband and had listened to him spin a hellish tale about his sleeping with a Holocaust denier and negotiating numbers in return for favours. Hed come down a million if shed do this to him, but would want to put a million back in return for doing that to her. You know what they say about black humour: its like a pair of legs. Some people dont have it. The humour in this book is as dark and pungent as the mold youd find at the
What a dick. What a douche.You can assign this to either the character or the author. It works either way.
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