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 *LONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2025* 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

A provocatively entertaining, savagely funny satire on Donald Trump by Britain’s greatest comic novelist. Pussy is the story of Prince Fracassus, heir presumptive to the Duchy of Origen, famed for its golden-gated skyscrapers and casinos, who passes his boyhood watching reality shows on TV, imagining himself to be the Roman Emperor Nero, and fantasizing about hookers. He is idle, boastful, thin-skinned and egotistic; has no manners, no curiosity, no knowledge, no idea and no words in which to express them. Could he, in that case, be the very leader to make the country great again?

Le diete low carb sono efficaci? Quanto sono sane e naturali? Servono al nostro benessere?In questo suo nuovo libro, T. Colin Campbell, affermato leader nel campo della nutrizione dei bestseller The China Study e Whole – Vegetale e integrale, ci spiega come questi regimi alimentari non siano la soluzione ottimale per la salute del nostro corpo.Le diete a basso contenuto di carboidrati, Atkins, South Beach, Zona e non solo, sono i metodi preferiti da milioni di persone per perdere peso.Ognuna ha le sue peculiarità, ma tutte hanno in comune due componenti fondamentali: la condanna dei carboidrati e l’enfasi sulle proteine – o sulla carne – e sui grassi come fonte di calorie.Anche la più recente tendenza, la dieta Paleo, nonostante il maggior rilievo che dà ad alcuni alimenti integrali, è solo un’ennesima variante delle stesse fobie legate ai carboidrati.Campbell ci spiega l’origine della convinzione secondo cui i carboidrati farebbero male e il motivo per cui questa teoria continua a sopravvivere nonostante tutte le prove scientifiche che dimostrano il contrario.Gli alimenti che in modo fuorviante definiamo “carboidrati” non sono tutti uguali per natura, e trattarli come tali ha gravi conseguenze negative per il nostro benessere nutrizionale.Se state pensando di adottare una dieta a basso contenuto di carboidrati, leggete prima questo libro: cambierà il vostro modo di considerare gli alimenti che mangiate, e quelli che scegliete per perdere peso e ottimizzare la salute, nell’immediato così come a lungo termine.Gli autoriColin Campbell è un famoso biochimico americano, nutrizionista e professore emerito alla Cornell University, considerato uno dei ricercatori alimentari più eminenti e riconosciuti in tutto il mondo. Il suo libro The China Study, basato sul Progetto Cina, ha portato a un cambiamento epocale nella storia dell’alimentazione. Pioniere nello studio del rapporto tra nutrizione e salute, tra dieta e malattie, Campbell dimostra nei suoi studi come il consumo di proteine animali sia evidentemente correlato allo sviluppo di cancro e malattie cardiache. The China Study è uno dei più vasti studi epidemiologici sulla dieta mai realizzati prima e una mastodontica ricerca sulla relazione tra cibo e malattia. Gli studi di Campbell sono stati pubblicati in più di 300 articoli.Cresciuto in una fattoria tradizionale e abituato a nutrirsi di carne tutti i giorni, ha modificato le sue abitudini dopo aver conseguito la laurea specialistica e il dottorato in “Nutrizione Biochimica” presso la Cornell University. Colin Campbell ha adottato una dieta vegana e naturale a partire dagli anni ‘90.Per oltre 20 anni ha lavorato nelle Commissioni della National Academy of Science, contribuendo alla stesura e allo sviluppo di politiche nazionali e internazionali sul binomio alimentazione salute.Nel 2010, dopo l''intervento cardiaco, l''ex presidente degli Stati Uniti Bill Clinton ha deciso di adottare la dieta raccomandata da Campbell, Caldwell Esselstyn, e Dean Ornish.Oggi, Campbell Colin, asserisce che la sana nutrizione è la vera scienza biomedica del futuro. Per approfondire visita il sito ufficiale di THE CHINA STUDY www.chinastudy.it.Howard Jacobson è formatore in campo sanitario, ha conseguito il master in sanità pubblica e il dottorato in scienze sanitarie presso la Temple University, nonché una laurea in storia a Princeton.

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 fodbold­spiller, 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.

An acclaimed surgeon specializing in weight loss delivers a paradigm-shifting examination of the diet and health industry’s focus on protein, explaining why it is detrimental to our health, and can prevent us from losing weight. 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, to gain or lose pounds, 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?” The answer, he emphatically argues, is NO. 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 explosive, groundbreaking book reveals the truth about the dangers of protein and shares a proven approach to weight loss, health, and longevity.

De son propre aveu, Felix Quinn est un homme parfaitement heureux. Il détient l’une des plus anciennes boutiques de livres rares de Londres et prend un plaisir infini à se plonger dans des textes oubliés. Marié à la divine Marisa, il en est éperdument amoureux, mais une crainte grandit en lui : la perdre. L’enfance de Felix lui a appris que l’amour ne va pas sans la perte, il choisit donc de la devancer en orchestrant la propre trahison de son épouse. Ainsi Marius, minutieusement choisi par Felix, entre-t-il dans la vie intime de Marisa. Felix pense alors embrasser une nouvelle forme de sérénité, or il se trouve aussitôt en prise avec un autre démon : la jalousie. Pour faire l’amour est un roman corrosif sur le sentiment d’amour et son contraire, la masculinité de l’émoi, l’obsession charnelle et la nature polymorphe de la jalousie. L’écriture ciselée de Howard Jacobson, à l’humour piquant impérieux, n’aura jamais été aussi animée entre honnêteté et provocation pure. « Une réussite presque eff rayante d’intelligence. » The Guardian « Une prouesse étonnante, un livre scandaleux, complexe, drôle, impertinent, grinçant et un tonifi ant intellectuel. » The Independent « Un récit hautement littéraire, à l’écriture maîtrisée à la perfection, aussi sombre et transgressif que férocement brillant. »The Times

Oliver Walzer is shy, bookish, Jewish. He doesn’t know how to talk to girls. But he can slice, flick and spin a ping pong ball better than any teenager in Manchester. Oliver channels his frustrated adolescent lust into the game he loves. That is until the heartbreaking Lorna Peachley and the prospect of a place at Cambridge take his eye off the ball.

A quattrocento anni dalla morte di William Shakespeare una grande impresa letteraria: celebri autori contemporanei riscrivono le maggiori opere del grande drammaturgo. Un progetto internazionale di cui Rizzoli è in esclusiva l'editore italiano.In un cimitero del Cheshire, due uomini non alzano lo sguardo: uno è Simon Strulovitch, facoltoso filantropo e collezionista di opere d'arte, padre dagli entusiasmi volubili, invischiato in una crisi familiare e bisognoso di qualcuno con cui parlare. L'altro, trasportato nel ventunesimo secolo con un mirabile gioco di realismo magico, è Shylock, ora come allora sospeso in un limbo di rabbia e risentimento, controparte perfetta per le domande esistenziali di Strulovitch. Dal cimitero se ne vanno insieme, segnando l'inizio di una straordinaria amicizia. Non lontano da lì, la ricca Plurabelle vive in una bolla di mondanità, interventi di chirurgia plastica e feste sfarzose. Suo fedele amico è D'Anton, malinconico dandy con la nobile missione di portare sorrisi nelle vite degli altri, che si ritrova a vestire un po' per caso i panni di Cupido per aiutare la figlia di Strulovitch; e così, a sottoscrivere un patto molto audace: anche lui, dovrà essere pronto a rinunciare a «una libbra della sua carne». «Ho immaginato Shylock» dice Jacobson «come una persona reale, contemporanea, non come un fantasma; un personaggio del dramma e della commedia dei nostri giorni.» Così, questa riscrittura del Mercante di Venezia gioca con il tempo per esaminare, con intelligenza e lucida ironia, il travaglio di essere padri, ebrei e, più in generale, uomini che fanno i conti con il sentimento della pietà.

‘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.

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.

Depuis plus de quarante ans, le docteur T. Colin Campbell est à la pointe de la recherche en nutrition. Grâce à lui, nous savons désormais que nombre de crises cardiaques, d''accidents vasculaires cérébraux et de cancers peuvent être évités grâce à une alimentation adaptée...

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

Marvin Kreitman, the luggage baron of South London, lives for sex. Or at least he lives for women. At present he loves four women--his mother, his wife Hazel, and his two daughters--and is in love with five more. Charlie Merriweather, on the other hand, nice Charlie, loves just the one woman, also called Charlie, the wife with whom he has been writing children''s books and having nice sex for twenty years. Once a week the two friends meet for a Chinese lunch, contriving never quite to have the conversation they would like to have--about fidelity and womanizing, and which makes you happier. Until today. It is Charlie who takes the dangerous step of asking for a piece of Marvin''s disordered life, but what follows embroils them all, the wives no less than the husbands. And none of them will ever be the same again.

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.

Novelist Guy Ableman is in thrall to his vivacious wife Vanessa, a strikingly beautiful red-head, contrary, highly strung and blazingly angry. The trouble is, he is no less in thrall to her alluring mother, Poppy. More like sisters than mother and daughter, they come as a pair, a blistering presence that destroys Guy''s peace of mind, suggesting the wildest stories but making it impossible for him to concentrate long enough to write any of them.Not that anyone reads Guy, anyway. Not that anyone is reading anything. Reading, Guy fears, is finished. His publisher, fearing the same, has committed suicide. His agent, like all agents, is in hiding. Vanessa, in the meantime, is writing a novel of her own. Guy doesn''t expect her to finish it, or even start it, but he dreads the consequences if she does.In flight from personal disappointment and universal despair, Guy wonders if it''s time to take his love for Poppy to another level. Fiction might be dead, but desire isn''t. And out of that desire he imagines squeezing one more great book.By turns angry, elegiac and rude, Zoo Time is a novel about love - love of women, love of literature, love of laughter. It shows our funniest writer at his brilliant best.

A collection of 2010 Man Booker winner Howard Jacobson''s most acclaimed journalism

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.

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 consacrée aux souffrances du peuple juif. 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 la dérision du judaïsme et sa vie personnelle 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 ?

Een schrijver met een writer''s block gebruikt zijn eigen leven ter inspiratie voor een nieuwe roman.

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.

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