Howard Jacobson

Kalooki Nights (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK Ltd
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781446413029
• Artikelnr.: 39223490

Autorenporträt

Howard Jacobson has written seventeen novels and six 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; he was also shortlisted for the prize in 2014 for J.