by Howard Jacobson
I was utterly prepared to LOVE! this from the first paragraph. The introduction to goyish, hapless, morbidly romantic Julian Treslove set my heart a-thumping: at last!, I thought, here is a book worthy of the adjective 'Nabokovian!' And at first the book is Nabokovian in the best way; in fact, certa...
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I picked this up having run out of books on holiday. This book was lying around in my holiday accommodation. This is not a proper review just a few quick thoughts. I really enjoyed the first half of the book which made me laugh out loud on a few occasions. The book covers middle age insecurity, ...
The Finkler Question is not an easy book to read. In subtle and not so subtle ways, it exposes the underbelly of every anti-Semitic stereotype and incident, on G-d's earth. I often asked myself as I read it, is this book a good thing or a bad one, for Jews. Is the picture it presents of the worst si...
I recently set myself the goal of reading through all the Man Booker prize winners. I decided to start on the most recent winners and work backwards as some of the earlier winners are hard to find. The Finkler Question is the 2010 winner and it left me wishing I had tried to look a little harder f...
I had to let this title stew for a few days after finishing it. While I had initially granted only four stars, I've had to round up for how well these characters have stuck with me. Despite what has been a whirlwind of reading (by my standards) I keep thinking of Treslove in my downtime.Most of the ...
A melancholy novel about grief and what it means to be Jewish, which manages to be consistently funny. Reminiscent of Saul Bellow's later novels.
I was so disappointed with this book, I loved the exploration of what it means to be Jewish, but so disliked the characters, with the possible exception of Libor, that I couldn't care less what happened to them, which rather meant that I was so bored by all their ruminations of their lives - in othe...
By the time you get to the end of this interminable book, you won't care what the fucking Finkler question is.Man Booker prize indeed. I need to give this book a proper review when I'm less irritated by it.
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