Shylock is My Name: The Merchant of Venice Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare).
Book formats
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Paperback 2 475руб.
Book short specifications
- Author
- Howard Jacobson
- Pages
- 288
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Series
- Hogarth Shakespeare
- Language
- english
- Release date
- August 4, 2016
- ISBN
- 978-0-09-959328-7
- GTIN
- 9780099593287
- Weight, g
- 202
About
A re-envisaging of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, from the Man Booker Prize-winner and our great chronicler of Jewish life.
‘Who is this guy, Dad? What is he doing here?’
With an absent wife and a daughter going off the rails, wealthy art collector and philanthropist Simon Strulovitch is in need of someone to talk to. So when he meets Shylock at a cemetery in Cheshire’s Golden Triangle, he invites him back to his house. It’s the beginning of a remarkable friendship ...
‘Jacobson is quite simply a master of comic precision. He writes like a dream’ Evening Standard
'The funniest British novelist since Kingsley Amis or Tom Sharpe' Mail on Sunday