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'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 and disappointed BBC worker 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 Sevick a Czechoslovakian always more concerned with the wider world than with exam results. Now both Libor and Finkler 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 had 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 11:30pm as Treslove hesitates a moment outside the window of the oldest violin dealer in the country as he walks home that he is attacked. After this his whole sense of who and what he is will slowly and ineluctably change. "The Finkler Question" is a scorching story of exclusion and belonging justice and love ageing wisdom and humanity. Funny furious unflinching this extraordinary novel shows one of our finest writers at his brilliant best.Read More

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    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 and disappointed BBC worker 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 Sevick a Czechoslovakian always more concerned with the wider world than with exam results. Now both Libor and Finkler 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 had 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 11:30pm as Treslove hesitates a moment outside the window of the oldest violin dealer in the country as he walks home that he is attacked. After this his whole sense of who and what he is will slowly and ineluctably change.

  • TheBookPeople

    Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular and disappointed BBC worker, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and TV personality, are old school friends. Despite a prickly relationship and very different lives, they've never quite lost touch with each other - or with former teacher, Libor Sevick, who was always more concerned with the wider world. Now, both Libor and Finkler are recently widowed and Treslove's chequered and unsuccessful record with women renders him an honorary third widower. They dine at Libor's grand London apartment and have a sweetly painful evening of reminiscence. Treslove is attacked on his way home and this slowly and ineluctably changes his whole sense of who and what he is. The winner of 2010's Man Booker Prize, Howard Jacobson's The Finkler Question is a comic novel full of observations about life, love, ageing and humanity.

  • Foyles

    Winner of the Man Book Prize 2010 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.

  • Blackwell

    WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC radio producer, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school friends.

  • BookDepository

    The Finkler Question : Paperback : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC : 9781408809938 : 1408809931 : 19 May 2011 : WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE

  • 1408809931
  • 9781408809938
  • Howard Jacobson
  • 3 May 2011
  • Bloomsbury Paperbacks
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 384
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