The Merchant of Venice Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare)
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Köp båda 2 för 548 krInspired...It does what any good literary subversion should do: deepens and enhances one's appreciation of the original. -- James Lasdun * Guardian * Jacobsons writing is virtuoso. He is the master of shifting tones, from the satirical to the serious. His 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 -- Lucasta Miller * Independent * A brilliant conceit A powerful reimagining and reinvention of Shakespeares character. -- Adam Lively * The Sunday Times * Howard Jacobsons reworking of The Merchant of Venice is a sly success Irascible, eloquent Shylock is a man transplanted from the play to today. -- Tim Martin * Daily Telegraph * Shylock is My Name has much to tell us about loss, identity and modern antisemitism ... Simon's debates with Shylock, snapshots of a man haranguing his literary Creator, are the heart of this book, knowing and humane -- Kate Maltby * The Times *
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.