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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 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 ...

‘Jacobson is quite simply a master of comic precision. He writes like a dream’ Evening Standard

'The funniest British novelist since Kingsley Amis or Tom Sharpe' Mail on Sunday

Shylock is My Name: The Merchant of Venice Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare)

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A re-envisaging of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, from the Man Booker Prize-winner and our great chronicler of Jewish life.... Read more

    Publisher: Vintage Publishing
    Publication Date: 04/08/2016
    ISBN13: 9780099593287, 978-0099593287
    ISBN10: 0099593289

    Number of Pages: 288

    Non Fiction , ELT & Literary Studies , Education

    Description

    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 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 ...

    ‘Jacobson is quite simply a master of comic precision. He writes like a dream’ Evening Standard

    'The funniest British novelist since Kingsley Amis or Tom Sharpe' Mail on Sunday

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