In Stock
Shylock is my name
Paperback
€13.19
Collect 39 Reward Points
- Free Delivery from
- This Book Is Available Online Only
- Book Synopsis
- Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice is brilliantly reinvented by Howard Jacobson, in his merciless, sharp and funny story of revenge, justice and antisemitism. With an absent wife and a daughter going off the rails, wealthy art collector and philanthropist Simon Strulovitch is in need of someone to talk to. So when he meets Shylock at a cemetery in Cheshire's Golden Triangle, he invites him back to his house. It's the beginning of a remarkable friendship... Howard Jacobson's version of The Merchant of Venice bends time to its own advantage as it asks what it means to be a father, a Jew and a merciful human being in the modern world. 'Inspired...It does what any good literary subversion should do: deepens and enhances one's appreciation of the original' Guardian 'Jacobson's prose has the sort of elastic precision you only get from a writer who is truly in command… There's also deep and sincere soul-searching going on here' Independent SHAKESPEARE RETOLD: Time travel. Zombies. Power-hungry media moguls. This is Shakespeare as you've never seen him before: nine iconic plays transformed by the best novelists of our time, with covers by Michael Craig-Martin.
- About The Author
- Howard Jacobson has written eighteen novels and six works of non-fiction. He won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Award in 2000 for The Mighty Walzer and then again in 2013 for Zoo Time. In 2010 he won the Man Booker Prize for The Finkler Question; he was also shortlisted for the prize in 2014 for J.
- Product Details
-
- ISBN
- 9781784878863
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics, (05 March 2026)
- Number of Pages
- 277
- Weight
- 206 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 197 x 128 x 21 mm
- Series:
- See all books in this series
- Categories: