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Howard Jacobson

Shylock is My Name

€14,95

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’ IndependentSHAKESPEARE 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.

Format: Paperback
Published: 2026
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Pages: 304
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1784878863
ISBN 13: 9781784878863

 

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Shylock is My Name

€14,95