Howard Jacobson - The Finkler Question

Guardian“Confusions are the starting point...” Much of the novel's comedy surrounds the attempt of Treslove to resolve his "incomplete" identity - a "universal lookalike" – by becoming a Jew or "Finkler". The Finkler Question balances precariously a bleak moralising with life-affirming humour..

The Independent“A seamless roll of blissfully melancholic interludes...” This charming novel follows many paths of enquiry, not least the present state of Jewish identity in Britain and how men share friendship. All are played out with Jacobson's exceptionally funny riffs and happy-sad refrains...

Scotsman“Exhileration all the way...” The opening chapters of this novel boast some of the wittiest, most poignant and sharply intelligent comic prose in the English language. Jacobson's brilliance thrives on the risk of riding death to a photo-finish, of writing for broke...

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