The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson games

The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson gamesWINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 'Full of wit, warmth, intelligence, human feeling and understanding. It is also beautifully written with that sophisticated and near invisible skill of the authentic writer' Observer 'Wonderful Jacobson is seriously on form' Evening Standard Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC radio producer, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school friends.

sated only by art and experience

can fix their own problems

anxieties and obsessions onto colour for thousands of years

with each major energy source feeding off the others

following his electrifying version of the epic Ramayana

one which will endure

including the Ultimate Christmas Burger

most of us are very wary

always unforgettable'

In the summer of 1983

In the aftermath

and everyday fella Andy Hamilton