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Kalooki Nights
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Author : Howard Jacobson
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2010-12-15
Kalooki Nights written by Howard Jacobson and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-15 with Fiction categories.
‘This book is Jacobson’s masterpiece’ Jonathan Freedland 'A work of genius' A.C. Grayling, The Times Wild, 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. Growing up in the peace and security of the 1950s Manchester suburbs, the word 'extermination' haunts his vocabulary and Nazis lurk in his imagination. When his childhood friend Manny is released from prison, the tug of religion and history proves too strong to be ignored and Max must accept there is no refuge from the dead... 'Raging, contentious, hilarious, holy, deicidal, heart-breaking’ Sunday Telegraph
Kalooki Nights
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Author : Howard Jacobson
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2007-04-03
Kalooki Nights written by Howard Jacobson and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-04-03 with Fiction categories.
Max Glickman, a Jewish cartoonist whose seminal work is a comic history titled Five Thousand Years of Bitterness, recalls his childhood in a British suburb in the 1950s. Growing up, Max is surrounded by Jews, each with an entirely different and outspoken view on what it means to be Jewish. His mother, incessantly preoccupied with a card game called Kalooki, only begrudgingly puts the deck away on the High Holy Days. Max's father, a failed boxer prone to spontaneous nosebleeds, is a self-proclaimed atheist and communist, unable to accept the God who has betrayed him so unequivocally in recent years. But it is through his friend and neighbor Manny Washinsky that Max begins to understand the indelible effects of the Holocaust and to explore the intrinsic and paradoxical questions of a postwar Jewish identity. Manny, obsessed with the Holocaust and haunted by the allure of its legacy, commits a crime of nightmare proportion against his family and his faith. Years later, after his friend's release from prison, Max is inexorably drawn to uncover the motive behind the catastrophic act -- the discovery of which leads to a startling revelation and a profound truth about religion and faith that exists where the sacred meets the profane. Spanning the decades between World War II and the present day, acclaimed author Howard Jacobson seamlessly weaves together a breath-takingly complex narrative of love, tragedy, redemption, and above all, remarkable humor. Deeply empathetic and audaciously funny, Kalooki Nights is a luminous story torn violently between the hope of restoring and rebuilding Jewish life, and the painful burden of memory and loss.
Kalooki Nights
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Author : Howard Jacobson
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Canada
Release Date : 2010-01-12
Kalooki Nights written by Howard Jacobson and has been published by Penguin Canada this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-12 with Fiction categories.
Cartoonist Max Glickman recalls his childhood in a British suburb in the 1950s, surrounded by Jews, each with an entirely different and outspoken view on what it means to be Jewish. After his friend Manny Washinsky is released from prison, Max is compelled to uncover the motive behind Manny's crime—the discovery of which leads Max to understand the indelible effects of the Holocaust and to explore the intrinsic and paradoxical questions of a post-war Jewish identity.
The Act Of Love
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Author : Howard Jacobson
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2009-03-17
The Act Of Love written by Howard Jacobson and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-17 with Fiction categories.
In a stunning follow-up to his much-heralded masterpiece, Kalooki Nights, acclaimed author Howard Jacobson has turned his mordant and uncanny sights on Felix Quinn, a rare-book dealer living in London, whose wife Marisa is unfaithful to him. All husbands, Felix maintains, secretly want their wives to be unfaithful to them. Felix hasn't always thought this way. From the moment of his first boyhood rejection, surviving the shattering effects of love and jealousy had been the study of his life. But while he is honeymooning with Marisa in Florida an event occurs that changes everything. In a moment, he goes from dreading the thought of someone else's hands on the woman he loves to thinking about nothing else. Enter Marius into Marisa's affections. And now Felix must wonder if he really is a happy man. The Act of Love is a haunting novel of love and jealousy, with stylish prose that crackles and razor-sharp dialogue, praised by the London Times as "darkly transgressive, as savage in its brilliance, as anything Jacobson has written." It is a startlingly perceptive, subtle portrait of a marriage and an excruciatingly honest, provocative exploration of sexual obsession.
Kalooki Nights
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Author : Howard Jacobson
language : fr
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Kalooki Nights written by Howard Jacobson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Jewish cartoonists categories.
Dans le Manchester des années 1950, deux garçons passaient des heures terrés dans un abri antiaérien à rédiger une bande dessinée intitulée Cinq mille ans d’inquiétude consacrée aux souffrances du peuple juif. Drôle de tandem : d’un côté, Max Glickman, rejeton d’un ancien boxeur athée et communiste et d’une créature de rêve obsédée par des parties de cartes entre amies ; de l’autre, Manny Washinsky, sa famille orthodoxe, ses coutumes ancestrales, sa culture talmudique, sa fascination pour les nazis. Devenu dessinateur humoristique, Max a bâti sa carrière sur la dérision du judaïsme et sa vie personnelle sur sa passion pour les femmes non juives aux prénoms affublés d’un tréma. Manny pour sa part a passé ses plus belles années en prison, après avoir assassiné ses parents durant leur sommeil. Contacté par un producteur pour écrire un scénario portant sur l’incroyable histoire de Manny, Max renoue avec ce dernier lorsqu’il est libéré de prison. Peut-être, en revisitant leur enfance dans le quartier de Crumpsall Park, finira-t-il par comprendre ce qui a poussé son ami à commettre un crime abominable. Suffit-il, pour devenir un assassin, d’écouter les fantômes des pères de ses pères ?
The Finkler Question
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Author : Howard Jacobson
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2010-08-02
The Finkler Question written by Howard Jacobson and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-02 with Fiction categories.
______________ WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE ______________ 'Full of wit, warmth, intelligence, human feeling and understanding. It is also beautifully written with that sophisticated and near invisible skill of the authentic writer' - Observer 'Wonderful ... Jacobson is seriously on form' - Evening Standard ______________ 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 very different lives, they've never quite lost touch with each other - or with their former teacher, Libor Sevcik. Both Libor and Finkler are recently widowed, and together with Treslove they share a sweetly painful evening revisiting a time before they had loved and lost. It is that very evening, when Treslove hesitates a moment as he walks home, that he is attacked - and his whole sense of who and what he is slowly and ineluctably changes. ______________ 'How is it possible to read Howard Jacobson and not lose oneself in admiration for the music of his language, the power of his characterisation and the penetration of his insight? ... The Finkler Question is further proof, if any was needed, of Jacobson's mastery of humour' - The Times 'There are few writers who exhibit the same unawed respect for language or such a relentless commitment to re-examining even the most seemingly unobjectionable of received wisdoms' - Daily Telegraph
The Mighty Walzer
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Author : Howard Jacobson
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2016-07-05
The Mighty Walzer written by Howard Jacobson and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-05 with Drama categories.
Oliver Walzer is shy, bookish, Jewish. He doesn’t know how to talk to girls. But he can slice, flick and spin a ping pong ball better than any teenager in Manchester. Oliver channels his frustrated adolescent lust into the game he loves. That is until the heartbreaking Lorna Peachley and the prospect of a place at Cambridge take his eye off the ball.
Seriously Funny
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Author : Howard Jacobson
language : en
Publisher: Viking Adult
Release Date : 1997
Seriously Funny written by Howard Jacobson and has been published by Viking Adult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Humor categories.
An investigation of the origins of comedy and the meaning of laughter, drawing on biology, anthropology, classical studies, behavioural science, philosophy and psychology - with a few authorial jokes along the way.
Who S Sorry Now
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Author : Howard Jacobson
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-08-31
Who S Sorry Now written by Howard Jacobson and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-31 with Fiction categories.
Marvin Kreitman, the luggage baron of South London, lives for sex. Or at least he lives for women. 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. Once a week the two friends meet for a Chinese lunch, contriving never quite to have the conversation they would like to have - about fidelity and womanising, and which makes you happier. Until today. It is Charlie who takes the dangerous step of asking for a piece of Marvin's disordered life, but what follows embroils them all, the wives no less than the husbands. And none of them will ever be the same again.
Live A Little
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Author : Howard Jacobson
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2019-07-04
Live A Little written by Howard Jacobson and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-04 with Fiction categories.
'A . . . tender love story . . . This book is alive. It pulses with warmth and intelligence' The Times 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. At the age of ninety-something, Beryl Dusinbery is forgetting everything – including her own children. She spends her days stitching morbid samplers and tormenting her two carers with tangled tales of her husbands and affairs. Shimi Carmelli can do up his own buttons, walks without a frame and speaks without spitting. Among the widows of North London, he’s whispered about as the last of the eligible bachelors. He forgets nothing –especially not the shame of a childhood incident that has long hung over him. There's very little left remaining for either of them. . . But perhaps just enough to heal some of the hurt inflicted along the way, and find new meaning in what's left. *SHORTLISTED FOR THE WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE 2020*