|                          The Finkler Question                              |
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 |                                 A Novel                                    |
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 | DATE: 2013-05-06  SIZE: 854,48KB DISKS: 01_______4,77MB      PAGES:        |
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 | PUBLISHER: Bloomsbury Publishing             GENRE: Fiction                |
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 | AUTHOR: Howard Jacobson                                                    |
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 | FORMAT: EPUB   PROTECTION: DRM     EDITION:                                |
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 | URL: http://www.booksamillion.com/p/Finkler-Question/Howard-Jacobson/Q835292818
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 | LANGUAGE: English   ISBN: 9781608196128                                    |
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 : He should have seen it coming. His life had been one mishap after          :
 : another.of it. So he should have been prepared for this one... Julian      :
 : Treslove, a professionally unspectacular and disappointed BBC worker, and  :
 : Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television           :
 : personality, are old school friends. Despite a prickly relationship and    :
 : very different lives, they've never quite lost touch with each other - or  :
 : with their former teacher, Libor Sevick, a Czechoslovakian always more     :
 : concerned with the wider world than with exam results. Now, both Libor and :
 : Finkler are recently widowed, and with Treslove, his chequered and         :
 : unsuccessful record with women rendering him an honorary third widower,    :
 : they dine at Libor's grand, central London apartment. It's a sweetly       :
 : painful evening of reminiscence in which all three remove themselves to a  :
 : time before they had loved and lost; a time before they had fathered       :
 : children, before the devastation of separations, before they had prized    :
 : anything greatly enough to fear the loss of it.                            :
 : Better, perhaps, to go through life without knowing happiness at all       :
 : because that way you had less to mourn? Treslove finds he has tears enough :
 : for the unbearable sadness of both his friends' losses. And it's that very :
 : evening, at exactly 11:30pm, as Treslove hesitates a moment outside the    :
 : window of the oldest violin dealer in the country as he walks home, that he:
 : is attacked. After this, his whole sense of who and what he is will slowly :
 : and ineluctably change. The Finkler Question is a scorching story of       :
 : exclusion and belonging, justice and love, ageing, wisdom and humanity.    :
 : Funny, furious, unflinching, this extraordinary novel shows one of our     :
 : finest writers at his brilliant best. A staggeringly brilliant new novel   :
 : from bestselling and award-winning giant of literature Howard Jacobson,    :
 : shortlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize.                                 :