Shylock is My Name
The Merchant of Venice Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare)Select a format:
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Summary
A re-envisaging of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, from the Man Booker Prize-winner and our great chronicler of Jewish life.
‘Who is this guy, Dad? What is he doing here?’
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 ...
‘Jacobson is quite simply a master of comic precision. He writes like a dream’ Evening Standard
'The funniest British novelist since Kingsley Amis or Tom Sharpe' Mail on Sunday
‘Who is this guy, Dad? What is he doing here?’
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 ...
‘Jacobson is quite simply a master of comic precision. He writes like a dream’ Evening Standard
'The funniest British novelist since Kingsley Amis or Tom Sharpe' Mail on Sunday
Reviews
Inspired...It does what any good literary subversion should do: deepens and enhances one's appreciation of the original.
James Lasdun, Guardian
