The Finkler Question

Howard Jacobson · 2010 CE · Novel · English · Contemporary

Julian Treslove, a non-Jewish former BBC producer in London, has long envied his friends Sam Finkler, a popular philosopher, and the elderly Libor Sevcik, a Czech-born widower. After being mugged and mishearing a remark, he decides he must be Jewish and, seeking to become one, he borrows their mourning and grievances. A comic novel that won the Booker Prize.

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