Kalooki Nights: A Novel - Brossura

Jacobson, Howard

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1416543430 ISBN 13: 9781416543435

Casa editrice: Simon & Schuster, 2008

Riassunto

Having grown up in the 1950s in the wake of the Holocaust, Jewish cartoonist Max Glickman recalls a shocking crime committed against his family and faith by a neighbor, an act involving a long-hidden motive that reveals startling truths about twenty-first-century religion. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

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"In Kalooki Nights [Jacobson] has taken his skills to a new level and produced a novel of genius." -- Michael Bywater, The Independent

"How is one to convey news of the arrival of a work of genius? This powerful, troubling, moving, profound novel is nothing less. What really steals one's breath away is its sharpness and depth of insight -- a sharpness that flays, and a depth almost too vertiginous to describe -- and the remorseless tragedy it unfolds, even as it makes one laugh aloud, sometimes in shock. It is the most intelligent and important novel [in years] . . . It is, to repeat and to repeat plainly, a work of genius." -- A. C. Grayling, The Times (London)

"The raging, contentious, hilarious, holy, deicidal, heartbreaking Kalooki Nights . . . is a novel that stands toe-to-toe with the greats . . . Jacobson can be funny and serious in the same breath. And yet there is no mistaking the reverence of his intention, or the rage that animates him at the heart of this more-than-a-novel . . . The reader -- entertained, exhausted and ennobled -- will finish this colossal work of art in remembrance and sorrow." -- Christopher Cleave, The Daily Telegraph (London)

"Howard Jacobson's tour de force . . . You don't have to be Jewish to love this book, just human." -- Simon Schama, The Guardian (London and Manchester)

"Howard Jacobson . . . is incapable of writing a predictable sentence. [Kalooki Nights] is likely to be the funniest book published this year [with] prose sharper and brighter than any of his contemporaries." -- Will Buckley, The Observer (London)

"Jacobson is quite simply a master of comic precision . . . That the things he is joking about are so dark and dangerous makes the jokes even better. And it dawns on you that the book isn't really just about being Jewish at all. It's about being human." -- Nicholas Lezard, Evening Standard (London)

L'autore:

Howard Jacobson is the author of eight previous novels, including The Mighty Walzer (winner of the 1999 Everyman Wodehouse Award for comic writing), and several works of nonfiction. He lives in London.

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• Editore: Simon & Schuster
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1416543430
• ISBN 13: 9781416543435
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 464