Man Booker Prize-winner and our great chronicler of Jewish life revisits Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice
Howard Jacobson has written fifteen 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 Man Booker Prize for The Finkler Question and was also shortlisted for the prize in 2014 for his most recent novel, J.
For him to write about and inside of The Merchant of Venice seems
to me a marriage made in heaven
*Stephen Greenblatt*
Inspired...It does what any good literary subversion should do:
deepens and enhances one's appreciation of the original.
*Guardian*
Jacobson’s writing is virtuoso. He is the master of shifting tones,
from the satirical to the serious. His prose has the sort of
elastic precision you only get from a writer who is truly in
command … There's also deep and sincere soul-searching going on
here
*Independent*
A brilliant conceit… A powerful reimagining and reinvention of
Shakespeare’s character.
*The Sunday Times*
Howard Jacobson’s reworking of The Merchant of Venice is a sly
success… Irascible, eloquent Shylock is a man transplanted from the
play to today.
*Daily Telegraph*
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