I am happy to post about the winner. The author is Jewish, yes you heard right a Jewish author won the prize.
He has also written, previously, in 2003 "Kalooki Nights".
The new novel, Finkler Question was just published on Tuesday in the U.S.
Since winning, the Booker Prize there is a lot of buzz out there. I can't recommend it as yet. I have not read it. But one of my blogging pals, Marie, from Boston Bibliophile is reading it. I can't wait for her
post . The Boston Globe has a article here.
He has also written, previously, in 2003 "Kalooki Nights".
The new novel, Finkler Question was just published on Tuesday in the U.S.
Since winning, the Booker Prize there is a lot of buzz out there. I can't recommend it as yet. I have not read it. But one of my blogging pals, Marie, from Boston Bibliophile is reading it. I can't wait for her
I am going to, not walk but run to get this book. It is nice to hear a Jewish author to get recognition occasionally. And, yes this book is about the Jewish experience in England. I also heard that it is funny too.
Below is the synopsis of the book I found on the Booker Prize website:
Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC radio producer, and
Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are
old school friends. Despite a prickly relationship and very different lives, they’ve
never quite lost touch with each other - or with their former teacher, Libor Sevick, a
Czech always more concerned with the wider world than with exam results.
Now, both Libor and Sam are recently widowed, and with Treslove, his chequered
and unsuccessful record with women rendering him an honorary third widower,
they dine at Libor’s grand, central London apartment.
It’s a sweetly painful evening of reminiscence in which all three remove
themselves to a time before they had loved and lost; a time before they had
fathered children, before the devastation of separations, before they had prized
anything greatly enough to fear the loss of it. Better, perhaps, to go through life
without knowing happiness at all because that way you have less to mourn?
Treslove finds he has tears enough for the unbearable sadness of both his friends’
losses.
And it’s that very evening, at exactly 11:30, as Treslove, walking home, hesitates
a moment outside the window of the oldest violin dealer in the country, that he
is attacked. And after this, his whole sense of who and what he is will slowly and
ineluctably change.
On another note, on this side of the Atlantic. American Jewish author, Nicole Krauss has been selected to be one of the finalists for the National Book Award for her novel The Great House.
Congratulations to both of these Jewish authors on both sides of the Atlantic.
Below is the synopsis of the book I found on the Booker Prize website:
Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC radio producer, and
Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are
old school friends. Despite a prickly relationship and very different lives, they’ve
never quite lost touch with each other - or with their former teacher, Libor Sevick, a
Czech always more concerned with the wider world than with exam results.
Now, both Libor and Sam are recently widowed, and with Treslove, his chequered
and unsuccessful record with women rendering him an honorary third widower,
they dine at Libor’s grand, central London apartment.
It’s a sweetly painful evening of reminiscence in which all three remove
themselves to a time before they had loved and lost; a time before they had
fathered children, before the devastation of separations, before they had prized
anything greatly enough to fear the loss of it. Better, perhaps, to go through life
without knowing happiness at all because that way you have less to mourn?
Treslove finds he has tears enough for the unbearable sadness of both his friends’
losses.
And it’s that very evening, at exactly 11:30, as Treslove, walking home, hesitates
a moment outside the window of the oldest violin dealer in the country, that he
is attacked. And after this, his whole sense of who and what he is will slowly and
ineluctably change.
On another note, on this side of the Atlantic. American Jewish author, Nicole Krauss has been selected to be one of the finalists for the National Book Award for her novel The Great House.
Congratulations to both of these Jewish authors on both sides of the Atlantic.
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5 comments:
and it's not even the first time a jewish author won the booker prize.
anita brookner and bernice rubens are two other jewish writers who've won the booker prize.
you can tell i'm wikipedia-ing the winners list. ruth prawer jhabvala, another jewish booker winner. so this would make jacobson only the first jewish man to win.
and nadine gordimer.
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