New Releases by Howard Jacobson

Love can change your life. Can it survive marriage and middle age? ''Wonderfully wise, moving and heartfelt'' WILLIAM BOYD ''A tender love story'' DAILY TELEGRAPH Lily falls in love with Sam the minute she sets eyes on him. It takes Sam a day or two longer. Curious, because Lily has never quite believed in love, while Sam thought he understood it inside out. Lily, a documentary maker, and Sam, a playwright, are both in relationships that have quietly expired, and an affair takes hold that they are powerless to resist. Arriving in mid-life, their relationship opens unexpected new worlds. But what will happen to them when familiarity and age begin to take their toll? What will survive? ''Celebrates love in later life'' HARPER''S BAZAAR ''Playful, knowing...a romping read in all senses'' EVENING STANDARD ''Jacobson at his finest'' LINDA GRANT

Julian Treslove e Sam Finkler, amici dai tempi della scuola, non potrebbero essere più diversi. Tanto è belloccio e inconcludente il primo, quanto è carismatico e risoluto il secondo. Treslove è sentimentale, pessimista, incapace di relazioni durature. Finkler è un filosofo pop, un volto noto della televisione, nonché autore di improbabili best seller come L’esistenzialista ai fornelli e Piccolo manuale di stoicismo domestico. Ma soprattutto Samuel Finkler è il prototipo dell’ebreo... o almeno questo è quello che pensa Treslove. Il loro rapporto è sempre stato ambivalente, un misto di ammirazione, competizione e invidia. Quando un giorno Treslove subisce un’aggressione per strada, la sua vita cambia in modo imprevedibile: colpito da una sorta di “giudaite” strisciante, cercherà di comportarsi da ebreo, di pensare da ebreo, alla ricerca della soluzione di un rebus antico almeno quanto il Vecchio Testamento: l’enigma ebraico – o meglio... l’enigma di Finkler. “Un vero gigante. Un grande, grande scrittore.” Jonathan Safran Foer “La sensibilità comica di Howard Jacobson fa pensare a quella di Woody Allen.” The New York Times “Jacobson non solo evoca Roth; evoca Roth al suo meglio.” The New York Times

Den jødiske kunstsamler Simon Strulovich har brug for en at tale med. Hans teenagedatter Beatrice er faldet i med inderkredsen af Manchesters high society og i armene på en fodboldu00adspiller, der er berygtet for at have givet en nazihilsen på banen. Så da Strulovich møder Shakespeares jødiske pengeudlåner Shylock på en kirkegård, inviterer han ham med hjem. Det bliver starten på et usædvanligt venskab. Ikke langt derfra lever den rige og manipulerende Plurabelle i en boble af plastikoperationer og overdådige fester. Hun er stjerne i sin egen tv-serie, og sammen med sin trofaste ven D’Anton leger hun giftekniv med Strulovichs datter – og sætter et skålpund kød på højkant. MIT NAVN ER SHYLOCK, Howard Jacobsons version af William Shakespeares Købmanden i Venedig, forskyder tid og sted og spørger, hvad det vil sige at være far, jøde og et barmhjertigt menneske i en moderne verden.

‘Wie is die man, papa? Wat doet hij hier?’ Simon Strulovitch is een rijke kunstverzamelaar en filantroop. Zijn vrouw is weg, zijn dochter is ontspoord, dus hij kan wel een luisterend oor gebruiken. Als hij Shylock ontmoet op een begraafplaats in de ‘Golden Triangle’ in Cheshire (een gebied van welvarende dorpen en stadjes) nodigt hij hem met graagte thuis uit. Het is het begin van een opmerkelijke vriendschap. Elders in de Golden Triangle wentelt de rijke en manipulatieve Plurabelle (ook wel bekend als Anna Livia Plurabelle Schoonheid is voor Eeuwig Christine) zich in haar wereldje van plastische chirurgie en dure feestjes. Ze deelt een vileine kijk op de mens en een stekelig gevoel voor humor met haar vertrouweling D’Anton, die graag voor cupido speelt en die zijn oog heeft laten vallen op de dochter van Strulovitch. Er staat een pond vlees op het spel... Howard Jacobsons versie van The Merchant of Venice buigt de tijd in ons voordeel en stelt de vraag wat het in het huidige tijdsgewricht betekent om vader te zijn, een jood, en een mens die genade kent. ‘Dit is voor iedereen het meest verontrustende Shakespeare-stuk, maar voor een schrijver die toevallig ook joods is, tevens de moeilijkste uitdaging.’

Man Booker Prize-winner Howard Jacobson brings his singular brilliance to this modern re-imagining of one of Shakespeare’s most unforgettable characters: Shylock Winter, a cemetery, Shylock. In this provocative and profound interpretation of The Merchant of Venice, Shylock is juxtaposed against his present-day counterpart in the character of art dealer and conflicted father Simon Strulovitch. With characteristic irony, Jacobson presents Shylock as a man of incisive wit and passion, concerned still with questions of identity, parenthood, anti-Semitism and revenge. While Strulovich struggles to reconcile himself to his daughter Beatrice's “betrayal” of her family and heritage—as she is carried away by the excitement of Manchester high society, and into the arms of a footballer notorious for giving a Nazi salute on the field—Shylock alternates grief for his beloved wife with rage against his own daughter's rejection of her Jewish upbringing. Culminating in a shocking twist on Shylock’s demand for the infamous pound of flesh, Jacobson’s insightful retelling examines contemporary, acutely relevant questions of Jewish identity while maintaining a poignant sympathy for its characters and a genuine spiritual kinship with its antecedent—a drama which Jacobson himself considers to be “the most troubling of Shakespeare’s plays for anyone, but, for an English novelist who happens to be Jewish, also the most challenging.”

Howard Jacobson íróként, újságíróként és műsorvezetőként a brit zsidó humor képviselőjeként szerzett magának hírnevet a szigetországban. Jacobson egész életműve a zsidó identitással, a zsidók brit társadalomban, kultúrában elfoglalt helyének témakörével foglalkozik. Épp ezért nem véletlen, hogy a Shakespeare halálának 400. évfordulója alkalmából meghirdetett projekt, amelynek keretében neves angolszász szerzőket kértek fel egy-egy Shakespeare dráma újragondolására, átdolgozására, hogy a Booker-díjas szerzőre esett a választás. A Velencei kalmár történetét adaptálta mai színterekre a szerző, s miként az eredeti darabban úgy ebben a mostani történetben is keverednek a bohózat-jellegű és a komolyabb hangvételű stíluselemek. Az eredeti mű - amely már születésének idején is megosztotta a nézőket - középpontjában a keresztény velencei kalmár, Antonio és a zsidó uzsorás, Shylock közötti konfliktus áll, melynek mozgatórugója az ellentétes piaci érdekeik, valamint a vallás- és kultúrabeli különbségek. A mostani történet "antihőse" Shylock a mai, 21. századi Észak-Angliában él, egy olyan gazdagok lakta városrészben, ahol az egy négyzetméterre jutó celebritások és futballsztárok száma igencsak magas. A szerző a címszereplő mellett, mintegy az ő alteregójaként megjeleníti a gazdag műgyűjtőt, Simon Strulovitchet, akinek felesége súlyos beteg, lányának élete pedig épen vakvágányra tévedt. Az apa-lánya, illetve a zsidó-keresztény ellentmondásokra fókuszál szerző miközben a címszereplő és Simon találkozásából egy ígéretes barátság kezdetét bontja ki. A téma okán a szerző ráirányítja a figyelmet a zsidó identitás, az antiszemitizmus problematikájára, de a zsidó-keresztény párhuzamokra is.

"A book that will help you lose weight; keep it off; prevent lifestyle disease and even reverse it. . . . [E]very doctor should prescribe [it]." —Rich Roll, bestselling author of Finding Ultra and The Plantpower Way Whether you are seeing a doctor, nutritionist, or a trainer, all of them advise to eat more protein. Foods, drinks, and supplements are loaded with extra protein. Many people use protein for weight control, while others believe it gives them more energy and is essential for a longer, healthier life. Now, Dr. Garth Davis, an expert in weight loss asks, "Is all this protein making us healthier?" Too much protein is actually making us sick, fat, and tired, according to Dr. Davis. If you are getting adequate calories in your diet, there is no such thing as protein deficiency. The healthiest countries in the world eat far less protein than we do and yet we have an entire nation on a protein binge getting sicker by the day. As a surgeon treating obese patients, Dr. Davis was frustrated by the ever-increasing number of sick and overweight patients, but it wasn't until his own health scare that he realized he could do something about it. Combining cutting-edge research, with his hands-on patient experience and his years dedicated to analyzing studies of the world's longest-lived populations, this groundbreaking book reveals the truth about the dangers of protein and shares a proven approach to weight loss, health, and longevity. "Exhaustively researched and fascinating." — Publishers Weekly "A groundbreaking book." —Neal D. Barnard, MD, President, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine, George Washington University School of Medicine "A life changer in the truest sense of the word." — Booklist

Finalist for the 2014 Man Booker Prize “J is a snarling, effervescent, and ambitious philosophical work of fiction that poses unsettling questions about our sense of history, and our self-satisfied orthodoxies. Jacobson’s triumph is to craft a novel that is poignant as well as troubling from the debris.” —Independent (UK) Man Booker Prize–winner Howard Jacobson’s brilliant and profound new novel, J, “invites comparison with George Orwell’s 1984 and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World” (Sunday Times, London). Set in a world where collective memory has vanished and the past is a dangerous country, not to be talked about or visited, J is a boldly inventive love story, both tender and terrifying. Kevern Cohen doesn’t know why his father always drew two fingers across his lips when he said a word starting with a J. It wasn’t then, and isn’t now, the time or place to be asking questions. When the extravagantly beautiful Ailinn Solomons arrives in his village by a sea that laps no other shore, Kevern is instantly drawn to her. Although mistrustful by nature, the two become linked as if they were meant for each other. Together, they form a refuge from the commonplace brutality that is the legacy of a historic catastrophe shrouded in suspicion, denial, and apology, simply referred to as WHAT HAPPENED, IF IT HAPPENED. To Ailinn’s guardian, Esme Nussbaum, Ailinn and Kevern are fragile shoots of hopefulness. As this unusual pair’s actions draw them into ever-increasing danger, Esme is determined to keep them together—whatever the cost. In this stunning, evocative, and terribly heartbreaking work, where one couple’s love affair could have shattering consequences for the human race, Howard Jacobson gathers his prodigious gifts for the crowning achievement of a remarkable career.

By now, the low-carb diet's refrain is a familiar one: Bread is bad for you. Fat doesn't matter. Carbs are the real reason you can't lose weight. The low-carb universe Dr. Atkins brought into being continues to expand. Low-carb diets, from South Beach to the Zone and beyond, are still the go-to method for weight-loss for millions. These diets' marketing may differ, but they all share two crucial components: the condemnation of “carbs" and an emphasis on meat and fat for calories. Even the latest diet trend, the Paleo diet, is—despite its increased focus on (some) whole foods—just another variation on the same carbohydrate fears. In The Low-Carb Fraud, longtime leader in the nutritional science field T. Colin Campbell (author of The China Study and Whole) outlines where (and how) the low-carb proponents get it wrong: where the belief that carbohydrates are bad came from, and why it persists despite all the evidence to the contrary. The foods we misleadingly refer to as “carbs" aren't all created equal—and treating them that way has major consequences for our nutritional well-being. If you're considering a low-carb diet, read this e-book first. It will change the way you think about what you eat—and how you should be eating, to lose weight and optimize your health, now and for the long term.

The Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Finkler Question went Down Under - and this is what he found... The Sunday Times bestseller - over 50,000 copies sold of the original edition

Sharing a long-time best friendship with a married sex addict, Charlie, a mild-mannered children's book author and faithful husband, tentatively asks his friend to introduce him to a more exciting life and triggers a profound sequence of events. By the Booker Prize-winning author of The Finkler Question. Original. 15,000 first printing.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER What happens when you eat an apple? The answer is vastly more complex than you imagine. Every apple contains thousands of antioxidants whose names, beyond a few like vitamin C, are unfamiliar to us, and each of these powerful chemicals has the potential to play an important role in supporting our health. They impact thousands upon thousands of metabolic reactions inside the human body. But calculating the specific influence of each of these chemicals isn't nearly sufficient to explain the effect of the apple as a whole. Because almost every chemical can affect every other chemical, there is an almost infinite number of possible biological consequences. And that's just from an apple. Nutritional science, long stuck in a reductionist mindset, is at the cusp of a revolution. The traditional “gold standard" of nutrition research has been to study one chemical at a time in an attempt to determine its particular impact on the human body. These sorts of studies are helpful to food companies trying to prove there is a chemical in milk or pre-packaged dinners that is “good" for us, but they provide little insight into the complexity of what actually happens in our bodies or how those chemicals contribute to our health. In The China Study, T. Colin Campbell (alongside his son, Thomas M. Campbell) revolutionized the way we think about our food with the evidence that a whole food, plant-based diet is the healthiest way to eat. Now, in Whole, he explains the science behind that evidence, the ways our current scientific paradigm ignores the fascinating complexity of the human body, and why, if we have such overwhelming evidence that everything we think we know about nutrition is wrong, our eating habits haven't changed. Whole is an eye-opening, paradigm-changing journey through cutting-edge thinking on nutrition, a scientific tour de force with powerful implications for our health and for our world.

Vencedor do Man Booker Prize chega ao Brasil Aclamado por crítica e público, chega ao Brasil o polêmico e premiado A questão finkler, de Howard Jacobson. Este romance extraordinário, engraçado e implacável mostra um dos melhores escritores contemporâneos em toda a sua genialidade. Quando lançado, muitos críticos consideraram que a história de Jacobson era um desrespeito à cultura judaica e que sua escrita era de baixa qualidade. Por outro lado, a maioria considerou o livro uma obra-prima, repleta de ironia e sarcasmo e que o autor teve enorme êxito ao fazer os judeus rirem de si mesmos. O ex-produtor da rádio BBC e depressivo Julian Treslove e Sam Finkler, filósofo, escritor e celebridade televisiva, são velhos amigos. Sam é judeu; Julian, não. A despeito do relacionamento cheio de altos e baixos e dos estilos de vida muito diferentes, eles jamais perderam o contato um com o outro – nem com o ex-professor Libor Sevcik, um judeu tcheco sempre mais preocupado com o que acontece no mundo do que com os resultados das provas.

In awe of his strikingly beautiful, highly strung wife and her equally volatile mother, novelist Guy Ableman finds his work persistently interrupted by their drama and dreams of squeezing out one more great book in spite of growing fears that reading is a cultural activity of the past. By the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Finkler Question. 50,000 first printing.

Dans le Manchester des années 1950, deux garçons passaient des heures terrés dans un abri antiaérien à rédiger une bande dessinée intitulée Cinq mille ans d’inquiétude. Drôle de tandem : d’un côté, Max Glickman, rejeton d’un ancien boxeur athée et communiste et d’une créature de rêve obsédée par des parties de cartes entre amies ; de l’autre, Manny Washinsky, sa famille orthodoxe, ses coutumes ancestrales, sa culture talmudique, sa fascination pour les nazis. Devenu dessinateur humoristique, Max a bâti sa carrière sur sa passion pour les femmes non juives aux prénoms affublés d’un tréma. Manny pour sa part a passé ses plus belles années en prison, après avoir assassiné ses parents durant leur sommeil. Contacté par un producteur pour écrire un scénario portant sur l’incroyable histoire de Manny, Max renoue avec ce dernier lorsqu’il est libéré de prison. Peut-être, en revisitant leur enfance dans le quartier de Crumpsall Park, finira-t-il par comprendre ce qui a poussé son ami à commettre un crime abominable. Suffit-il, pour devenir un assassin, d’écouter les fantômes des pères de ses pères ? "Une découverte majeure." Lire "Déchaîné, polémique, hilarant, sacré, déicide, déchirant..." The Sunday Télégraph

Winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize! Korean edition of THE FINKLER QUESTION by Howard Jacobson. The story begins with three men living in London, Julian Treslove, the former radio producer, Sam Finkler, Jewish philosopher, and their former teacher, Libor Sevcik... The Finkler Question is a funny, furious, unflinching novel of friendship and loss, exclusion and belonging, and the wisdom and humanity of maturity. In Korean. Annotation copyright Tsai Fong Books, Inc. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

En varm og vittig fortelling om utestenging og tilhørighet, rettferdighet og kjærlighet, aldring, visdom og det å være menneske. Vinner av Booker-prisen 2010! Howard Jacobson er en prisbelønt forfatter og TV-produsent bosatt i London.

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Julian Treslove et Sam Finkler se connaissent depuis l’enfance, Libor Sevcik est leur ancien prof d’histoire. Au fil des ans, la vie les a séparés sans qu’ils se perdent tout à fait de vue. La mort des épouses de Finkler et de Libor va les réunir de nouveau ; Treslove, veuf honoraire, passe quelques heures délicieusement pénibles avec ses deux amis, à se rappeler le passé. Or, ce soir-là, en rentrant chez lui le cœur lourd, il est victime d’une banale agression qu’il passera des jours à décortiquer. Peu à peu, une certitude s’impose à lui : on l’a pris pour un juif. Et s’il l’était vraiment ? "Chaque page déborde d''esprit : humour noir ou doux-amer, ironie, comédie, burlesque, rparties, cynisme... L''humour n''est pas l''ennemi d''un propos sérieux, et, entre de bonnes mains, il est même vital, en ce qu''il inroduit habilement des idées, des postulats, des partis pris et des préjugés inconscients" The London Times

¿Es mejor no conocer la felicidad para no tener que sufrir cuando se pierde? Novela ganadora del Man Booker Prize 2010 Una noche, en el centro de Londres, tres amigos se reúnen para cenar. Dos de ellos acaban de enviudar y el tercero no tiene vida amorosa, sino desastres amorosos uno tras otro. La charla -que los lleva a filosofar, emborracharse y, finalmente, desvariar- acabará lanzando a la luz una pregunta clave: ¿Es mejor no conocer la felicidad para no tener que sufrir cuando se pierde?

Julian Treslove, professionally unspectacular BBC worker, and Sam Finkler, popular Jewish philosopher and TV personality, are old school friends. They''ve never quite lost touch with each other - or with their former teacher, Libor Sevick. Treslove dines with recent widowers Libor and Finkler at Libor''s London apartment for a sweetly painful evening of reminiscence. As Treslove walks home he is attacked and robbed, and everything changes. (Bestseller)

A staggeringly brilliant new novel from bestselling and award-winning giant of literature Howard Jacobson, shortlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize.

The Exagoge is a drama on the theme of the Jewish Exodus written during the second century BC by Ezekiel, who emerges as a tragedian of significance.

Man Booker Prize–Winning Author of THE FINKLER QUESTION Swathed in his kimono, drinking tea from his samovar, Henry Nagle is temperamentally opposed to life in the 21st century. Preferring not to contemplate the great intellectual and worldly success of his best boyhood friend, he argues constantly with his father, an upholsterer turned fire-eater–and now dead for many years. When he goes out at all, Henry goes after other men’s wives. But when he mysteriously inherits a sumptuous apartment, Henry’s life changes, bringing on a slick descendant of Robert Louis Stevenson, an excitable red setter, and a wise-cracking waitress with a taste for danger. All of them demand his attention, even his love, a word which barely exists in Henry’s magisterial vocabulary, never mind his heart. From one of England’s most highly regarded writers, The Making of Henry is a ravishing novel, at once wise, tender and mordantly funny.

This book offers a dramatically new translation of "Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum," a commentary that deals extensively with LAB's place in ancient biblical exegesis, and an introduction that treats the major problems associated with LAB (e.g. date, original language, manuscript tradition, exegetical techniques).

From a Booker Prize-winning author, an "informed and witty" travelogue exploring America, Israel, Lithuania, and the nature of Jewish identity ( Publishers Weekly). Howard Jacobson had been hoping to make a journey to Lithuania to search for his Jewish roots. So when the BBC offered to send him around the globe to report on a variety of Jewish communities, he accepted. The trip he recounts in this memoir takes him to New York City, where tension simmers between Jews and African Americans; to California, where he visits a gay synagogue; to Israel, where he encounters the spectrum of Jewishness from Orthodox right-wing hardliners to tolerant, peace-loving kibbutzniks. And ultimately, to Lithuania, the land of his forefathers, where he discovers that antisemitism still lurks. "A lively, irreverent but ultimately serious account of a British Jew's search for his roots." —Elizabeth Benedict, The New York Times "Profound and moving." — Publishers Weekly

The fall of man from Cain''s point of view. He calls God a spiteful tyrant and has nasty things to say about such biblical personages as Abel, Adam and Eve, and his girlfriend, Zilpah. By the author of Coming from Behind.