New Releases by Howard Jacobson

¿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, a radio producer, and Samuel Finkler, a Jewish philosopher, have been friends since childhood and, as they enter middle age, they reminisce over their struggles with self-identity, anti-Semitism, women, love, and the past.

En esta erudita y atrevida novela, la 10ma. del autor británico Jacobson (Noches de Kalooki), éste explora la naturaleza de lo erótico con un toque perverso. el narrador, Félix Quinn, un librero de anticuarios pasados de moda en el Londres actual, decide

In a stunning follow-up to his much-heralded masterpiece, Kalooki Nights, acclaimed author Howard Jacobson has turned his mordant and uncanny sights on Felix Quinn, a rare-book dealer living in London, whose wife Marisa is unfaithful to him. All husbands, Felix maintains, secretly want their wives to be unfaithful to them. Felix hasn''t always thought this way. From the moment of his first boyhood rejection, surviving the shattering effects of love and jealousy had been the study of his life. But while he is honeymooning with Marisa in Florida an event occurs that changes everything. In a moment, he goes from dreading the thought of someone else''s hands on the woman he loves to thinking about nothing else. Enter Marius into Marisa''s affections. And now Felix must wonder if he really is a happy man. The Act of Love is a haunting novel of love and jealousy, with stylish prose that crackles and razor-sharp dialogue, praised by the London Times as "darkly transgressive, as savage in its brilliance, as anything Jacobson has written." It is a startlingly perceptive, subtle portrait of a marriage and an excruciatingly honest, provocative exploration of sexual obsession.

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Longlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize and hailed by "The Times" (London) as Ra work of genius, S Jacobson''s exquisitely written, audaciously funny novel explores the countless questions of postwar Jewish identity.

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.

Accompanying the first big retrospective of works by Dennis Creffield, this book presents 21 illustrations, including figurative charcoal works as well as almost abstract oil landscapes. A poetic foreword is written by Howard Jackson and the artist is interviewed by Lynda Morris.

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

De overtuiging dat hij de reïncarnatie is van de 19e eeuwse auteur Thomas Hardy wordt voor een jonge man tot een obsessie die zijn leven gaat beheersen.

Een door zijn joodse afkomst gefrustreerde leraar Engels zet zich uit jaloezie af tegen collega''s en vrienden die het verder hebben gebracht dan hij