Kalooki Nights
Author: Jacobson, Howard
ISBN: 9780099501367
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 01 Nov 2007
Pages: 480
Format: Paperback / softback
A blackly comic novel from the British Philip Roth, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize
'This book is Jacobson's masterpiece' Jonathan Freedland
'A work of genius' A.C. Grayling, The Times
Wild, angry and uproarious, Kalooki Nights is a darkly comic, timely novel of what it means to be human.
Max Glickman is son to an atheist boxer, Jack 'The Jew' Glickman, and a glamorous card-playing mother. Growing up in the peace and security of the 1950s Manchester suburbs, the word 'extermination' haunts his vocabulary and Nazis lurk in his imagination.
When his childhood friend Manny is released from prison, the tug of religion and history proves too strong to be ignored and Max must accept there is no refuge from the dead...
'Raging, contentious, hilarious, holy, deicidal, heart-breaking' Sunday Telegraph
ISBN: 9780099501367
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 01 Nov 2007
Pages: 480
Format: Paperback / softback
A blackly comic novel from the British Philip Roth, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize
'This book is Jacobson's masterpiece' Jonathan Freedland
'A work of genius' A.C. Grayling, The Times
Wild, angry and uproarious, Kalooki Nights is a darkly comic, timely novel of what it means to be human.
Max Glickman is son to an atheist boxer, Jack 'The Jew' Glickman, and a glamorous card-playing mother. Growing up in the peace and security of the 1950s Manchester suburbs, the word 'extermination' haunts his vocabulary and Nazis lurk in his imagination.
When his childhood friend Manny is released from prison, the tug of religion and history proves too strong to be ignored and Max must accept there is no refuge from the dead...
'Raging, contentious, hilarious, holy, deicidal, heart-breaking' Sunday Telegraph
