Books by Howard Jacobson

A re-envisaging of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, from the Man Booker Prize-winner and our great chronicler of Jewish life. He writes like a dream' Evening Standard'The funniest British novelist since Kingsley Amis or Tom Sharpe' Mail on Sunday

A wickedly observed novel about falling in love at the end of your life, by the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Finkler Question. *SHORTLISTED FOR THE WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE 2020*At the age of ninety-something, Beryl Dusinbery is forgetting everything - including her own children.

Shakespeare wrote out of, and about, a common humanity, and it is with humanity, common and uncommon, that we must read or watch him.

The Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Finkler Question went Down Under - and this is what he found... The Sunday Times bestseller - over 50,000 copies sold of the original edition

Shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker PrizeShortlisted for the 2014 Goldsmiths PrizeSet in the future - a world where the past is a dangerous country, not to be talked about or visited - J is a love story of incomparable strangeness, both tender and terrifying.

A collection of 2010 Man Booker winner Howard Jacobson's most acclaimed journalism

The Exagoge is a drama on the theme of the Jewish Exodus, written in the form of a Greek tragedy by a Jew some time during the second century BC. It survives in 269 lines of continuous passage, enough to give the shape of the play and to reveal Ezekiel as a tragedian of significance.

No man has ever loved a woman and not imagined her in the arms of someone else. Felix Quinn calls himself a happy man. But a childhood experience has taught him that loss is intrinsic to love, and Felix realises that he can only be truly happy if his wife is sleeping with another man.

Grayling, The TimesWild, angry and uproarious, Kalooki Nights is a darkly comic, timely novel of what it means to be human. Max Glickman is son to an atheist boxer, Jack 'The Jew' Glickman, and a glamorous card-playing mother.

Barney Fugleman has two major preoccupations in life: sex and literature. He is obsessed by the life and work of a man hailed by many as a genius of the nineteenth century. This curious propulsion drives him out of Finchley, and out of the life he shares with Sharon and her 'rampant marvellings', to Cornwall.

Winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize. Karl Leon Forelock is a product of the northern English town of Partington (the wettest spot in Europe) and a graduate with a double starred first in the Moral Decencies from Malapert college, Cambridge.

From the beginning Oliver Walzer is a natural - at ping-pong. At sex he is not so adept, but with tuition from Sheeny Waxman, fellow member of the Akiva Social Club Table Tennis Team and stalwart of the Kardomah coffee bar, his game improves. Winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize.

Frank Ritz is a television critic. Let him out of the house and his first instinct is to go looking for sex. Deviant sex, treacherous sex, even straight sex, so long as it's immoderate - he's never been choosy. But what happens when sex is all you know but no longer what you want?

At present he loves four women - his mother, his wife Hazel, and his two daughters - and is in love with five more. Charlie Merriweather, on the other hand, nice Charlie, loves just the one woman, also called Charlie, the wife with whom he has been writing children's books and having nice sex for twenty years.

In an ever divided Britain, this wryly observed novel is a timely and thought-provoking read from the Booker-winning author of The Finkler Question. 'A very funny, bitterly intelligent novel...do read it' Malcolm BradburySefton Goldberg: mid-thirties, English teacher at Wrottesley Poly in the West Midlands;

Den jødiske kunstsamler Simon Strulovich har brug for en at tale med. Hans teenagedatter Beatrice er faldet i med inderkredsen af Manchesters high society og i armene på en fodbold spiller, der er berygtet for at have givet en nazihilsen på banen. Så da Strulovich møder Shakespeares jødiske pengeudlåner Shylock på en kirkegård, inviterer han ham med hjem. Det bliver starten på et usædvanligt venskab. Ikke langt derfra lever den rige og manipulerende Plurabelle i en boble af plastikoperationer og overdådige fester. Hun er stjerne i sin egen tv-serie, og sammen med sin trofaste ven D’Anton leger hun giftekniv med Strulovichs datter – og sætter et skålpund kød på højkant. MIT NAVN ER SHYLOCK, Howard Jacobsons version af William Shakespeares Købmanden i Venedig, forskyder tid og sted og spørger, hvad det vil sige at være far, jøde og et barmhjertigt menneske i en moderne verden. ”At fremragende forfattere også kan skrive videre på [Shakespeares] historier, så de rammer nutidens læser i både hjerte og hjerne, er dette romanprojekt et enestående vidnesbyrd om.” Jyllands-Posten, 5 stjerner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ”…den løbende udveksling mellem Strulovitch og Shylock løfter stoffet op i intens vigtighed. Om tradition og fornægtelse, om antisemitisme og anderledeshed. Her får romanen bid og skønhed.” Weekendavisen "Overordnet er det lykkedes for Jacobson at skabe en kynisk, men hysterisk morsom genfortælling af Købmanden i Venedig, som dog tager sig tid til at konfrontere de problematikker Shakespeares oprindelige stykke syntes at bære præg af. Det efterlader os med en knivskarp, tåkrummende historie om hævn, fordomme og forhastede, irrationelle handlinger med dybt forkastelige, men latterligt sjove karakterer, som tilsammen gør det svært at lægge bogen fra sig." Littuna.dk