Howard Jacobson - The Finkler Question.nfo
General Information
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Title: The Finkler Question
Author: Howard Jacobson
Read By: Steven Crossley
Copyright: 2010
Audiobook Copyright: 2010
Genre: Fiction
Publisher: Recorded Books
Abridged: No
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Total Duration: 12:36:22
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Book Description
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Awards
The Man Booker Prize
"A real giant, a great, great writer."
Jonathan Safran Foer
'He should have seen it coming. His life had been one mishap after another.
So he should have been prepared for this one...'
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 quite lost touch with each other
- or with their former teacher, Libor Sevcik, a Czech always more concerned
with the wider world than with exam results.
Now, both Libor and Sam are recently widowed, and with Treslove, his
chequered and unsuccessful record with women rendering him an honorary
third widower, they dine at Libor's grand, central London apartment.
It's a sweetly painful evening of reminiscence in which all three remove
themselves to a time before they had loved and lost; a time before they
had fathered children, before the devastation of separations, before
they had prized anything greatly enough to fear the loss of it. Better,
perhaps, to go through life without knowing happiness at all because
that way you have less to mourn? Treslove finds he has tears enough
for the unbearable sadness of both his friends' losses.
And it's that very evening, at exactly 11:30, as Treslove, walking home,
hesitates a moment outside the window of the oldest violin dealer in
the country, that he is attacked. And after this, his whole sense of
who and what he is will slowly and ineluctably change.
The Finkler Question is a scorching story of friendship and loss, exclusion
and belonging, and of the wisdom and humanity of maturity. Funny, furious,
unflinching, this extraordinary novel shows one of our finest writers
at his brilliant best.
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