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The Finkler Question
by Howard Jacobson

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The Man Booker Prize Winner 2010

About the Book: The Finkler Question

Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC radio producer, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television read more
The Finkler Question. Howard Jacobson
by Howard Jacobson

Price: ~~Rs.399~~ Rs.298
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The Man Booker Prize Winner 2010

About the Book: The Finkler Question

Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC radio producer, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television read more
Whatever It Is, I Don't Like It: The Best of Howard Jacobson
by Howard Jacobson

Price: ~~Rs.499~~ Rs.402
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Key Features/Quotes
- A collection of 2010 Man Booker winner Howard Jacobson's most acclaimed journalism
- It takes a particular kind of man to want an embroidered polo player astride his left nipple. Occasionally, when I read more
Whatever it is, I Don't Like it
by Howard Jacobson

Price: ~~Rs.299~~ Rs.236
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Kalooki Nights
by Howard Jacobson

Price: ~~Rs.450~~ Rs.371
Discount: Rs. 79 (18%)
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Life should have been sunny for Max Glickman, growing up in Crumpsall Park in peacetime, with his mother's glamorous card evenings to look forward to, and photographs of his father's favourite boxers on the walls. But other voices whisper seductively to h read more
No More Mr. Nice Guy
by Howard Jacobson

Price: ~~Rs.450~~ Rs.337
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Language: English | Binding: Paperback

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No More Mr. Nice Guy

Synopsis

Frank Ritz is a television critic. His partner, Melissa Paul, is the author of pornographic novels for liberated women. He watches crap all day; she writ read more
Mighty Walzer
by Howard Jacobson

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The Mighty Walzer

The Barnes & Noble Review

"Toproduce a mighty book," Melville says in Moby-Dick, "you must choose a mighty theme. No greatand enduring volume can ever be written on th read more
Redback
by Howard Jacobson

Price: ~~Rs.450~~ Rs.343
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Karl Leon Forelock is a product of the northern English town of Partington (the wettest spot in Europe) and a graduate with a double starred first in the Moral Decencies from Malapert college, Cambridge. Sent to Sydney on a CIA bursary on a mission to tea read more
Peeping Tom
by Howard Jacobson

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Barney Fugleman has two major preoccupations in life: sex and literature. He is obsessed by the life and work of a man hailed by many as a genius of the nineteenth century - and by Barney as a 'prurient little Victorian ratbag'. This curious propu read more
Who's Sorry Now
by Howard Jacobson

Price: ~~Rs.450~~ Rs.341
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Who's Sorry Now?

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Who's Sorry Now?
- Reading Group Guide
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Coming From Behind
by Howard Jacobson

Price: ~~Rs.499~~ Rs.383
Discount: Rs. 116 (23%)
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Sefton Goldberg: mid-thirties, English teacher at Wrottesley Poly in the West Midlands; small, sweaty, lustful, defiantly unappreciative of beer, nature and organised games; gnawingly aware of being an urban Jew islanded in a sea of country-loving Anglo-S read more
The Making Of Henry
by Howard Jacobson

Price: ~~Rs.450~~ Rs.363
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The Making of Henry

Kirkus Reviews

Jacobson's turgid eighth outing tells you more than you ever wanted to know about the life of a retired university lecturer. Henry Nagel, pushing 60, has recen read more
Kalooki Nights
by Howard Jacobson

Price: ~~Rs.499~~ Rs.386
Discount: Rs. 113 (23%)
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Language: English | Binding: Paperback

Life should have been sunny for Max Glickman, growing up in Crumpsall Park in peacetime, with his mother???s glamorous card evenings to look forward to, and photographs of his father???s favourite boxers on the walls. But other voices whisper seductively read more
Act Of Love, The
by Howard Jacobson

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'No man has ever loved a woman and not imagined her in the arms of someone else'

Felix Quinn calls himself a happy man. He owns one of London's oldest antiquarian bookshops. He is married to and adores the beautiful Marisa. But a c read more
Jacobson: Zoo Time
by Howard Jacobson

Price: ~~Rs.399~~ Rs.336
Discount: Rs. 63 (16%)
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About the Book :

Novelist Guy Ableman is in thrall to his vivacious wifeVanessa, beautiful but contrary, highly strung and blazingly angry.The trouble is, he is no less in thrall to her alluring mother,Poppy. Their provocative presenc read more
Kalooki Nights: A Novel
by Howard Jacobson

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Max Glickman, a Jewish cartoonist whose seminal work is a comic history titled Five Thousand Years of Bitterness, recalls his childhood in a British suburb in the 1950s. Growing up, Max is surrounded by Jews, each with an entirely different and outspoken read more
The Act Of Love: A Novel
by Howard Jacobson

Price: ~~Rs.1260~~ Rs.1141
Discount: Rs. 119 (9%)
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In a stunning follow-up to his much-heralded masterpiece, Kalooki Nights, acclaimed author Howard Jacobson has turned his mordant and uncanny sights on Felix Quinn, a rare-book dealer living in London, whose wife Marisa is unfaithful to him. read more
The Finkler Question
by Howard Jacobson

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Language: English | Binding: Hardbound

He should have seen it coming. His life had been one mishap after another. So he should have been prepared for this one... Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC radio producer, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer read more
The Exagoge Of Ezekiel
by Howard Jacobson

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The Exagoge is a drama on the theme of the Jewish Exodus, written in Greek in the form of a Greek tragedy by a Jew living in Alexandria probably at some time during the second century BC. It survives in 269 lines - not isolated verses but forming sever read more
Roots Schmoots: Journeys Among Jews
by Howard Jacobson

Price: ~~Rs.1544~~ Rs.1473
Discount: Rs. 71 (5%)
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Language: English | Binding: Paperback

In this brilliant memoir, Howard Jacobson describes his journey to his ancestral home in Lithuania to discover his Jewish roots--with stops along the way in the Catskills, Manhattan, Tucson, Los Angeles, Eilat, Jerusalem, Tiberias, Haifa, and Sefat. Roots read more