An award-winning writer and broadcaster, Howard Jacobson was born in Manchester in 1942, brought up in Prestwich and was educated at Stand Grammar School in Whitefield, and Downing College, Cambridge, where he studied under F R Leavis.
He lectured for three years at the University of Sydney before returning to teach at Selwyn College, Cambridge.
His books include The Mighty Walzer (1999), winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize; Kalooki Nights (2006), longlisted for the Man Booker Prize; and The Finkler Question (2010), winner of the Man Booker Prize. His most recent, J, is shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014.
Howard Jacobson lives in London.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 392 páginas
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ISBN 978-84-16677-07-8
EAN 9788416677078
Jacobson ha creado un mundo en donde un hombre y una mujer se enamoran a partir de la más absoluta desmemoria de sus respectivos pasados, vinculados tan sólo por una gran catástrofe pasada una especie de segundo Holocausto cuyos detalles desconocen y a la que todo el mundo se refiere comúnmente como Lo que sucedió, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-09-959328-7
EAN 9780099593287
A re-envisaging of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, from the Man Booker Prize-winner and our great chronicler of Jewish life. 'Who is this guy, Dad? What is he doing here?' 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 ...
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