Shylock Is My Name
€16.00
Product Information
| ISBN | 9781784878863 |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Random House |
| Publishing Date | 05/03/2026 |
| Price (excl. tax) | €15.09 |
| Tax | €0.91 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €16.00 |
| Availability | 12 units in external warehouse |
Product Description
Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice is brilliantly reinvented by Howard Jacobson, in his merciless, sharp and funny story of revenge, justice and antisemitism. With an absent wife and a daughter going off the rails, wealthy art collector and philanthropist Simon Strulovitch is in need of someone to talk to. So when he meets Shylock at a cemetery in Cheshire’s Golden Triangle, he invites him back to his house. It’s the beginning of a remarkable friendship... Howard Jacobson’s version of The Merchant of Venice bends time to its own advantage as it asks what it means to be a father, a Jew and a merciful human being in the modern world. ‘Inspired...It does what any good literary subversion should do: deepens and enhances one's appreciation of the original’ Guardian‘Jacobson’s prose has the sort of elastic precision you only get from a writer who is truly in command… There's also deep and sincere soul-searching going on here’ IndependentSHAKESPEARE RETOLD: Time travel. Zombies. Power-hungry media moguls. This is Shakespeare as you’ve never seen him before: nine iconic plays transformed by the best novelists of our time, with covers by Michael Craig-Martin.