Shylock Is My Name Av Howard Jacobson

<p><b>A re-envisaging of </b><b>Shakespeare''s <i>The Merchant of Venice,</i></b><b> from the Man Booker Prize-winner and our great chronicler of Jewish life. </b><br><br><i>‘Who is this guy, Dad? What is he doing here?’ </i><br><br>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 ...<br><br><i>‘</i>Jacobson is quite simply a master of comic precision. He writes like a dream<i>’ </i><i>Evening Standard</i><br><br>''The funniest British novelist since Kingsley Amis or Tom Sharpe''<i> Mail on Sunday</i></p>