Kalooki Nights: A Novel

(Max Glickman, a Jewish cartoonist whose seminal work is a...)

Max Glickman, a Jewish cartoonist whose seminal work is a comic history titled Five Thousand Years of Bitterness, recalls his childhood in a British suburb in the 1950s. Growing up, Max is surrounded by Jews, each with an entirely different and outspoken view on what it means to be Jewish. His mother, incessantly preoccupied with a card game called Kalooki, only begrudgingly puts the deck away on the High Holy Days. Max's father, a failed boxer prone to spontaneous nosebleeds, is a self-proclaimed atheist and communist, unable to accept the God who has betrayed him so unequivocally in recent years. But it is through his friend and neighbor Manny Washinsky that Max begins to understand the indelible effects of the Holocaust and to explore the intrinsic and paradoxical questions of a postwar Jewish identity. Manny, obsessed with the Holocaust and haunted by the allure of its legacy, commits a crime of nightmare proportion against his family and his faith. Years later, after his friend's release from prison, Max is inexorably drawn to uncover the motive behind the catastrophic act -- the discovery of which leads to a startling revelation and a profound truth about religion and faith that exists where the sacred meets the profane. Spanning the decades between World War II and the present day, acclaimed author Howard Jacobson seamlessly weaves together a breath-takingly complex narrative of love, tragedy, redemption, and above all, remarkable humor. Deeply empathetic and audaciously funny, Kalooki Nights is a luminous story torn violently between the hope of restoring and rebuilding Jewish life, and the painful burden of memory and loss.

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The Finkler Question (Korean Edition)

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Redback

(Winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize. Karl Leon Forelock i...)

Winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize. Karl Leon Forelock is a product of the northern English town of Partington (the wettest spot in Europe) and a graduate with a double starred first in the Moral Decencies from Malapert college, Cambridge. Sent to Sydney on a CIA bursary on a mission to teach the Australians how to live, Leon quickly discovers that there are some natives who believe that they have an education to pass on in return. But it is at the hands of the women in Australia that Leon receives his most painful, and on occasions his most pleasurable, lessons. Meanwhile, in a foul, dilapidated bush privy, way up in the Bogong high plains, the Redback sucks her teeth and waits her turn...

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Seriously Funny: From the Ridiculous to the Sublime (A Channel Four book)

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Kalooki Nights

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In the Land of Oz

(On what he calls 'the adventure of his life', Howard Jaco...)

On what he calls 'the adventure of his life', Howard Jacobson travels around Australia, never entirely sure where he is heading next or whether he has the courage to tackle the wild life of the bush, the wild men of the outback, or the even wilder women of the seaboard cities. In pursuit of the best of Australian good times, he joins revelers at Uluru, argues with racists in the Kimberleys, parties with wine-growers in the Barossa and falls for ballet dancers in Perth. And even as vexed questions of national identity and Aboriginal land rights present themselves, his love for Australia and Australians never falters.

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Kalooki Night

(Synopsis Life should have been sunny for Max Glickman, gr...)

Synopsis Life should have been sunny for Max Glickman, growing up in peacetime, with his mother's glamorous card evenings to look forward to, and photographs of his father's favourite boxers on the walls. But other voices whisper to him of Buchenwald, extermination, and the impossibility of forgetting. Fixated on the crimes which have been committed against his people, but unable to live among them, Max moves away, marries out, and draws cartoon histories of Jewish suffering in which no one, least of all the Jews, is much interested. But it's a life. Or it seems a life until Max's childhood friend, Manny is released from prison...

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Roots Schmoots: Journeys Among Jews

( Wherever there is a Jew there is a journey; for a Jew t...)

Wherever there is a Jew there is a journey; for a Jew to go travelling in search of his Jewishness is therefore doubly Jewish. When fast-breaking political events forced British novelist Jacobson (Peeping Tom) to put off a trip to Lithuania planned as a search for his Jewish roots, he accepted an offer from the BBC to visit Jewish communities around the globe instead. This informed and witty account of his experiences deals with the wide variety of contemporary Jewish life, as well as with how Jacobson's observations affected his own concept of what it means to be a Jew. Riding an emotional roller coaster, he witnessed the hostility between Jews and African Americans in New York City, attended services in a gay synagogue in California and found his basic cynicism about religion reinforced after he spent time with Orthodox Jews in Israel, although his spirits were lifted by a visit to an idealistic, tolerant Israeli kibbutz. His journey concluded with the postponed trip to Lithuania, where the author found virulent anti-Semitism. The book has been adapted for a forthcoming BBC/PBS documentary.

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Kalooki Nights by Jacobson, Howard (2007) Paperback

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Roots Schmoots: Journeys Among Jews 1st edition by Jacobson, Howard (1995) Paperback

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Die Finkler-Frage: Roman (German Edition)

(Julian Tresloves Leben ist ein Scherbenhaufen. Gescheiter...)

Julian Tresloves Leben ist ein Scherbenhaufen. Gescheitert als Redakteur der BBC, gescheitert in seinen Beziehungen zu Frauen, gescheitert als Vater seiner zwei Söhne. Eines Abends wird Treslove Opfer eines Überfalls und glaubt zu hören, wie die Angreiferin ihn als Juden beschimpft – und ist auf perverse Art glücklich. Endlich gehört er irgendwo dazu. Was nur werden seine beiden Freunde zu diesem Gesinnungswandel sagen? Beide sind Juden und wären es lieber nicht … Von Männerfreundschaft, Liebe, Sex, Tod, und was es bedeutet, jüdisch zu sein – sprachlich raffiniert nimmt Howard Jacobson die Obsessionen unserer Zeit ins Visier und hat mit „Die Finkler-Frage” einen beißend-klugen und dabei hochkomischen Gegenwartsroman geschrieben.

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Coming From Behind by Howard Jacobson (1985) Paperback

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Seriously Funny: From the Ridiculous to the Sublime (A Channel Four book) by Howard Jacobson (30-Jan-1997) Hardcover

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by Howard Jacobson (Author)The Finkler Question (Man Booker Prize) Paperback

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The Mighty Walzer: A Novel

( From the beginning Oliver Walzer is a natural--at ping-...)

From the beginning Oliver Walzer is a natural--at ping-pong. Even with his improvised bat (the Collins Classic edition of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde) he can chop, flick, half-volley like a champion. At sex he is not a natural, being shy and frightened of women, but with tuition from Sheeny Waxman, fellow member of the Akiva Social Club Table Tennis team, his game improves. And while the Akiva boys teach him everything he needs to know about ping-pong, his father, Joel Walzer, teaches him everything there is to know about "swag." Unabashedly autobiographical, this is an hilarious and heartbreaking story of one man's coming of age in 1950's Manchester.

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kalooki nights

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Finkler Question by Jacobson, Howard Paperback

(Finkler Question Jacobson, Howard)

Finkler Question Jacobson, Howard

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Very Model of a Man

(This is, in part the story of Cain and Abel, told from th...)

This is, in part the story of Cain and Abel, told from the point of view of Cain. It is also about the nature of family relationships and sibling rivalry and about Jewishness. Along the way the book makes observations about skin problems among angels and pre-Freudian psychological complexities.

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The Finkler Question

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Kalooki nights / Howard Jacobson

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Roots Schmoots: Journeys Among Jews by Howard Jacobson (1-Aug-1995) Paperback

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The Making of Henry

(Man Booker Prize–Winning Author of THE FINKLER QUESTION ...)

Man Booker Prize–Winning Author of THE FINKLER QUESTION Swathed in his kimono, drinking tea from his samovar, Henry Nagle is temperamentally opposed to life in the 21st century. Preferring not to contemplate the great intellectual and worldly success of his best boyhood friend, he argues constantly with his father, an upholsterer turned fire-eater–and now dead for many years. When he goes out at all, Henry goes after other men’s wives. But when he mysteriously inherits a sumptuous apartment, Henry’s life changes, bringing on a slick descendant of Robert Louis Stevenson, an excitable red setter, and a wise-cracking waitress with a taste for danger. All of them demand his attention, even his love, a word which barely exists in Henry’s magisterial vocabulary, never mind his heart. From one of England’s most highly regarded writers, The Making of Henry is a ravishing novel, at once wise, tender and mordantly funny.

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Kalooki Nights by Howard Jacobson (Author), Steven Crossley (Narrator) Unabridged PlayAway Audio

(Life should have been sunny for Max Glickman, growing up ...)

Life should have been sunny for Max Glickman, growing up in peacetime, with his mother's glamorous card evenings to look forward to, and photographs of his father's favourite boxers on the walls. But other voices whisper to him of Buchenwald, extermination, and the impossibility of forgetting. Fixated on the crimes which have been committed against his people, but unable to live among them, Max moves away, marries out, and draws cartoon histories of Jewish suffering in which no one, least of all the Jews, is much interested. But it's a life. Or it seems a life until Max's childhood friend, Manny is released from prison...This recording is unabridged. Typically abridged audiobooks are not more than 60 per cent of the author's work and as low as 30 per cent with characters and plotlines removed. About the Author Howard Jacobson is the author of eight novels and four works of non-fiction. He won the Everyman Wodehouse Award for comic writing in 1999 for The Mighty Walzer. Playaway is the only format that makes audiobooks accessible for everyone-providing the portability of a digital audiobook with the grab-and-go convenience of a physical format. Unlike CDs, Audio Cassettes or downloads, Playaway does not need a separate player. Playaway comes preloaded and ready to use with High Definition Audio Content, earbuds, and a battery.

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Coming From Behind

(Sefton Goldberg: mid-thirties, English teacher at Wrottes...)

Sefton Goldberg: mid-thirties, English teacher at Wrottesley Poly in the West Midlands; small, sweaty, lustful, defiantly unappreciative of beer, nature and organized games; gnawingly aware of being an urban Jew islanded in a sea of country-loving Anglo-Saxons. Obsessed by failure so much so that he plans to write a bestseller on the subject. In the meantime, he is uncomfortably aware of advancing years and atrophying achievement, and no amount of lofty rationalization can disguise the triumph of friends and colleagues, not only from Cambridge days but even within the despised walls of the Poly itself, or sweeten the bitter pill of another’s success.

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The Mighty Walzer THE MIGHTY WALZER By Jacobson, Howard ( Author )Mar-29-2011 Paperback

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La Question Finkler (French Edition)

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Roots Schmoots: Journeys Among Jews Paperback August 1, 1995

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Peeping Tom~Howard Jacobson

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