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  Man Booker Prize-winner Howard
Jacobson brings his singular brilliance to this modern re-imagining of one of Shakespeare’s most unforgettable
characters: Shylock
   
  Winter, a cemetery, Shylock. In this provocative and profound interpretation of
“The Merchant of Venice,” Shylock is juxtaposed against his present-day counterpart in the character of art
dealer and conflicted father Simon Strulovitch. 
  
  With characteristic irony, Jacobson presents Shylock as
a man of incisive wit and passion, concerned still with questions of identity, parenthood, anti-Semitism and revenge.
While Strulovich struggles to reconcile himself to his daughter Beatrice’s “betrayal” of her family
and heritage – as she is carried away by the excitement of Manchester high society, and into the arms of a
footballer notorious for giving a Nazi salute on the field – Shylock alternates grief for his beloved wife with
rage against his own daughter’s rejection of her Jewish upbringing. 
  
  Culminating in a shocking
twist on Shylock’s demand for the infamous pound of flesh, Jacobson’s insightful retelling examines
contemporary, acutely relevant questions of Jewish identity while maintaining a poignant sympathy for its characters and
a genuine spiritual kinship with its antecedent—a drama which Jacobson himself considers to be “the most
troubling of Shakespeare’s plays for anyone, but, for an English novelist who happens to be Jewish, also the most
challenging.”
  
  PRAISE
  “Jacobson… has delivered with authority and
style… [a] deft artist firmly in control, offering witty twists to a play long experienced by many as a racial
tragedy.” 
  -– The Washington Post
  
  “Sharply written, profoundly
provocative.” 
  –The Huffington Post
  
  “The Shylock of the novel is … a
character in search of an author, or at least an author who will write him fully, fill in the blanks and give him a
voice where once he was voiceless. And in Jacobson, after just over 400 years, he has found a mensch who has
done—with considerable skill—exactly that.”
  – The Daily Beast
  
 
“Stimulating… Jacobson is ideally suited to take on ‘Merchant.’”
  – The
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
  
  “It is delicious…Jacobson is one of our finest writers.” 
  – Forward
  
  “A funny and insightful reimagining of The Merchant of Venice…Jacobson
is uniquely qualified to take on The Merchant of Venice.”
  – The Miami Herald
  
  “A
serious comic masterpiece.” 
  –- The Spectator (UK) 
  
  “Supremely stylish, probing
and unsettling…This Shylock is a sympathetic character… both savagely funny and intellectually searching,
both wise and sophistical, intimate and coldly controlling… Jacobson’s writing is virtuoso. He is a master
of shifting tones, from the satirical to the serious. His prose has the sort of elastic precision you only get from a
writer who is truly in command.” 
  – The Independent (UK) 
  
  “Jacobson takes the
play’s themes – justice, revenge, mercy, Jews and Christians, Jew-hatred, fathers and daughters –
and works away at them with dark humour and rare intelligence… This is Jacobson at his best. There is no funnier
writer in English today. Not just laugh-out-loud humour, though there is plenty of that, including wonderful jokes about
circumcision and masturbation. But a sharp, biting humour, which stabs home in a single line… This is one of his
best novels yet.” 
  – Jewish Chronicle (UK)
  
  “Part remake, part satire and part
symposium, Jacobson’s Merchant is less Shakespeare retold than Shakespeare reverse-engineered… in these
juicy, intemperate, wisecracking squabbles, Jacobson really communicates with Shakespeare’s play, teasing out the
lacunae, quietly adjusting its emphases … and making startlingly creative use of the centuries-old
playscript.” 
  –-Daily Telegraph (UK)
   
  “Jacobson, with glorious chutzpah, gives
Shylock his Act V, and the end when it comes is extremely satisfying… Provocative, caustic and bold.” 

 –- Financial Times (UK)
   
  “Jacobson is a novelist of ideas… What is added to a great
work in the rewriting? Do we need the argot of the 21st century because the original is now intimidatingly remote?
[Shylock Is My Name] is a moving, disturbing and compelling riposte to the blithe resolution offered in the
urtext.”
  – Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
  
  “Jacobson treats Shylock less as a
product of Shakespeare’s culture and imagination than as a real historical figure emblematic of Jewish
experience—an approach that gives the novel peculiar vigour.” 
  – Prospect Magazine (UK)

  
  “When Shylock and Strulovitch are swapping jokes, stories, and fears, the tale is energetic…a work
that stands on its own.” 
  – Publishers Weekly 
  
  “The Merchant is well-suited to
Jacobson, a Philip Roth–like British writer known for his sterling prose and Jewish themes….full of the
facile asides and riffs for which Jacobson has been praised.” — Kirkus
  
   						

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