Julian Treslove, a radio producer, and Samuel Finkler, a Jewish philosopher, have been friends since childhood and, as they enter middle age, they reminisce over their struggles with self-identity, anti-Semitism, women, love, and the past.
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The Finkler Question is a marvellous book: very funny, of course, but also very clever, very sad and very subtle. It is all that it seems to be and much more than it seems to be. A completely worthy winner of this great prize. --Andrew Motion, chair of the Man Booker judges
The Finkler Question is wonderful. A blistering portrayal of a funny man who at last confronts the darkness of the world --Beryl Bainbridge
A real giant. A great, great writer --Jonathan Safran Foer
Julian Treslove, ein zurückhaltender Reporter und Sam Finkler, ein berühmter jüdischer Philosoph sind alte Schulfreunde. Trotz der langen Zeitspanne haben sie nie den Kontakt zueinander verloren - genau wie den zu ihrem Lehrer Libor Sevick. Der Abend, an dem sie sich zum Essen treffen wird zu einer Nacht voll bittersüßer Erinnerungen. Auf dem Heimweg wird Treslove brutal überfallen...
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Vendeur : World of Books (was SecondSale), Montgomery, IL, Etats-Unis
Paperback. Etat : Good. 'He should have seen it coming. His life had been one mishap after another. So he should have been prepared for this one.' Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BC radio producer, 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 Czech 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 have 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 11:30 pm, as Treslove, walking home, hesitates a moment outside the window of the oldest violin dealer in the country, that he is attacked. And after this, his whole sense of who and what he is will slowly and ineluctably change. The Finkler Question is a scorching story of friendship and loss, exclusion and belonging, and of the wisdom and humanity of maturity. Funny, furious, unflinching, this extraordinary novel shows one of our finest writers at his brilliant best. N° de réf. du vendeur 00049870547
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