Shylock is My Name: The Merchant of Venice Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare)

ISBN-13: 9780099593287 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 288 str.

Howard Jacobson

Opis

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...

Recenzje

Inspired...It does what any good literary subversion should do: deepens and enhances one's appreciation of the original. James Lasdun Guardian

O autorze

Howard Jacobson has written seventeen 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.