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The Finkler Question

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Poignant exploration of identity, friendship, and loss.

"The Finkler Question" could be a fantastic choice for you if you find yourself drawn to stories that combine wit with profound subject matter. Its blend of humor and heartbreak captures the complexities of life, exploring themes like aging, cultural identity, and the impact of past relationships on one's present self. Howard Jacobson's Booker Prize-winning work promises not just an engaging narrative but also a deep, reflective experience that stays with you long after you turn the last page.

  • Booker Prize (2010)
  • Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize Nominee (2011)
  • Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2012)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

The Finkler Question

Regular price ₱440.55
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₱396.50 Thryft Club Member Price
ISBN: 9781608196111
Authors: Howard Jacobson
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Date of Publication: 2010-10-12
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Drama, Literary Fiction, Contemporary
Goodreads rating: 2.83
(rated by 15680 readers)

Description

Winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize. Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC radio producer, 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 lost touch with each other, or with their former teacher, Libor Sevcik. Dining together one night at Sevcik's apartment, the two Jewish widowers and the unmarried Gentile, Treslove, share a sweetly painful evening, reminiscing on a time before they had loved and lost, before they had prized anything greatly enough to fear the loss of it. But as Treslove makes his way home, he is attacked and mugged outside a violin dealer's window. Treslove is convinced the crime was a misdirected act of anti-Semitism, and in its aftermath, his whole sense of self will ineluctably change. The Finkler Question is a funny, furious, unflinching novel of friendship and loss, exclusion and belonging, and the wisdom and humanity of maturity.
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Poignant exploration of identity, friendship, and loss.

"The Finkler Question" could be a fantastic choice for you if you find yourself drawn to stories that combine wit with profound subject matter. Its blend of humor and heartbreak captures the complexities of life, exploring themes like aging, cultural identity, and the impact of past relationships on one's present self. Howard Jacobson's Booker Prize-winning work promises not just an engaging narrative but also a deep, reflective experience that stays with you long after you turn the last page.

  • Booker Prize (2010)
  • Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize Nominee (2011)
  • Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2012)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.