WEEK 14; JACOBSON, THE FINKLER QUESTION
'The Finkler Question should not be seen as something that was "relentlessly middle-brow, or easy-peasy" because it was comic. It is much cleverer and more complicated and about much more difficult things than it immediately lets you know. Several people have used the word wise, and that's a good word.' [Andrew Motion, chair of judges]
Judges
Chair: Andrew Motion
Rosie Blau
Deborah Bull
Tom Sutcliffe
Frances Wilson
Shortlist
Howard Jacobson The Finkler Question (Bloomsbury)
Peter Carey Parrot and Olivier in America (Faber and Faber)
Emma Donoghue Room (Picador)
Damon Galgut In a Strange Room (Atlantic Books)
Andrea Levy The Long Song (Hachette)
Tom McCarthy C (Jonathan Cape)
[Note: There are links to my reviews of all these titles, over on the sidebar to the right and at the top. AR]
Topics:
• The comic novel.
• Englishness.
• The figure of the Jew.
Reviews
Ron Charles, 'The Finkler Question, by Howard Jacobson' Wednesday, Washington Post October 13, 2010
Edward Docx, 'The Finkler Question, by Howard Jacobson' The Observer, Sunday 15 August 2010
Gerard Jacobs, 'The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson', Daily Telegraph 28 July 2010
Anthony Julius, 'The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson', The Jewish Chronicle July 28, 2010
BHABA...your wings got clipped.
ReplyDeleteAnd they got clipped not just because of WINGU.
They got clipped because just too many drug addicts were talking in LAPRAP and that means mob loses control ..with the Queen.
And STING, he did, too.
And that meant GERMANY.
RISA.
She 's an aggressive one and she's not taking anymore shit form CALIZ.
REDPATH.
They got the signatures of every single perv in that pedophile ring.
" EN3314".... The " works".