Brought to you by Penguin. Howard Jacobson's funny, revealing and tender memoir of his path to becoming a writer It's my theory that only the unhappy, the uncomfortable, the gauche, the badly put together, aspire to make art. Why would you seek to reshape the world unless you were ill-at-ease in it? And I came out of the womb in every sense the wrong way round. In Mother's Boy, Booker-Prize winner Howard Jacobson reveals how he became a writer. It is an exploration of belonging and not-belonging, of being an insider and outsider, both English and Jewish. Jacobson was forty when his first novel was published. In Mother's Boy he traces the life that brought him there. Born to a working-class family in 1940s Manchester, the great-grandson of Lithuanian and Russian immigrants, Jacobson was raised by his mother, grandmother and aunt Joyce. His father was a regimental tailor, as well as an upholsterer, a market-stall holder, a taxi driver, a balloonist, and a magician. Grappling always with his family's history and his Jewish identity, Jacobson takes us from the growing pains of childhood to studying at Cambridge under F.R. Leavis, and landing in Sydney as a maverick young professor on campus. After his first marriage and the birth of his son, he lived in places as disparate as London, Wolverhampton, Boscastle and Melbourne, and worked many different jobs to make ends meet, from selling handbags on a market stall, to teaching English in schools, universities and sometimes football stadiums, and even helping to run an Australian-inspired restaurant in the middle of Cornwall. Full of Jacobson's trademark humour and infused with bittersweet memories of his parents, this is the story of a writer's beginnings - as well as the twists and turns that life takes - and of learning to understand who you are before you can become the writer you were meant to be. © Howard Jacobson 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

Mother's Boy

Two people fall in love. Kevern doesn't know why his father always drew two fingers across his lips when he said a world starting with a J. Ailinn too has grown up in the dark about where she came from. On their first date Kevern kisses the bruises under her eyes. He doesn't ask who hurt her. Hanging over the lives of everyone is a past event shrouded in suspicion, now referred to as What Happened, If It Happened.

Julian Treslove and Sam Finkler 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. Now all three are recently widowed, in their own way, and spend sweetly painful evenings together reminiscing. Until an unexpected violent attack brings everything they thought they knew into question.

The Finkler Question

One day, out of the blue, Henry Nagel receives a solicitor's letter telling him he has inherited a sumptuous apartment in St John's Wood. Divine intervention? Or his late father's love-nest? Henry doesn't know, but he's glad to escape the North, where there is nothing and no one to keep him. After nearly sixty years of angry disappointment, Henry's life is about to change. But the ghosts of Henry's past are not prepared to disappear without a struggle...

The Making of Henry

Experience teaches that the burden of guilt is as difficult as the burden of obligation. Philosophers note that irritation with this burden can quickly turn to resentment. So should Jews therefore be careful not to present themselves as victims? Does the same law apply to anti-Semitism? Howard Jacobson wonders if this chain of animosity can ever be broken.

When Will Jews Be Forgiven the Holocaust

‘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. Elsewhere in the Golden Triangle, the rich, manipulative Plurabelle (aka Anna Livia Plurabelle Cleopatra A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever Christine) is the face of her own TV series, existing in a bubble of plastic surgery and lavish parties. She shares prejudices and a barbed sense of humour with her loyal friend D’Anton, whose attempts to play Cupid involve Strulovitch’s daughter – and put a pound of flesh on the line. Howard Jacobson’s version of The Merchant of Venice bends time to its own advantage as it asks what it means to be a father, a Jew and a merciful human being in the modern world.

Hogarth Shakespeare

Shylock is My Name

Penguin presents the audio edition of Live a Little written by Howard Jacobson, read by David Sibley. A wickedly observed novel about falling in love at the end of your life, by the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Finkler Question. At the age of ninety-something, Beryl Dusinbery is forgetting everything – including her own children. She spends her days stitching morbid samplers and tormenting her two long-suffering carers, Nastya and Euphoria, with tangled stories of her husbands and love affairs. Shimi Carmelli can do up his own buttons, walks without the aid of a frame and speaks without spitting. Among the widows of North London, he’s whispered about as the last of the eligible bachelors. Unlike Beryl, he forgets nothing – especially not the shame of a childhood incident that has hung over him like an oppressive cloud ever since. There’s very little life remaining for either of them, but perhaps just enough to heal some of the hurt inflicted along the way, and find new meaning in what’s left. Told with Jacobson’s trademark wit and style, Live a Little is in equal parts funny, irreverent and tender – a novel to make you consider all the paths not taken, and whether you could still change course.

Live a Little

Hilarious, heartbreaking, provocative and affecting, Howard Jacobson's irresistible journalism reveals the Man Booker Prize-winning novelist in all his humanity. From the tiniest absurdities to the most universal joys and desolations, Jacobson writes with a thunder, passion and wit unmatched. Just as did his previous volume, Whatever It Is I Don't Like It, this glorious collection will delight, entertain, challenge and move.

The Dog's Last Walk

Pussy is the story of Prince Fracassus, heir presumptive to the Duchy of Origen, famed for its golden-gated skyscrapers and casinos, who passes his boyhood watching reality shows on TV, imagining himself to be the Roman Emperor Nero, and fantasizing about hookers. He is idle, boastful, thin-skinned and egotistic. He has no manners, no curiosity, no knowledge, no idea and no words in which to express them. Could he, in that case, be the very leader to make the country great again?

Pussy

Venetsian kauppias on yhä keskuudessamme. Jos olet pitänyt Woody Allenin elokuvista, pidät myös Shylockista. Ollaan talvisella hautausmaalla Luoteis-Englannissa. Äitinsä haudalla sureva Simon Strulovich huomaa miehen, joka puhuu kuolleelle vaimolleen. Koska myös Strulovichin vaimo on kuollut, hän kutsuu miehen, Shylockin, kotiinsa. Tästä alkavat keskustelut juutalaisuudesta, perhesuhteista ja kohtaamisen ongelmista. Romaani on intellektuaalinen ilotulitus, joka valaisee kirkkaasti niin ihmissuhteiden pimeät puolet kuin sukupolvien välisen kuilun syvänteen. Shylock, ikuinen on onnistunut ja rohkea romaaniversiointi William Shakespearen Venetsian kauppiaasta. Booker-palkittua Howard Jacobsonia (s. 1942) ei ole aiemmin suomennettu. Kirjoissaan paljon juutalaisten asemaa Englannissa käsittelevä Jacobson tuo yhden maailmankirjallisuuden keskeisimmistä juutalaisista hahmoista tähän päivään. Elävänä. Ikuisena.

Johnny Kniga Shakespeare

Shylock, ikuinen

Le diete low carb sono efficaci? Quanto sono sane e naturali? Servono al nostro benessere?In questo suo nuovo libro, T. Colin Campbell, affermato leader nel campo della nutrizione dei bestseller The China Study e Whole – Vegetale e integrale, ci spiega come questi regimi alimentari non siano la soluzione ottimale per la salute del nostro corpo.Le diete a basso contenuto di carboidrati, Atkins, South Beach, Zona e non solo, sono i metodi preferiti da milioni di persone per perdere peso.Ognuna ha le sue peculiarità, ma tutte hanno in comune due componenti fondamentali: la condanna dei carboidrati e l’enfasi sulle proteine – o sulla carne – e sui grassi come fonte di calorie.Anche la più recente tendenza, la dieta Paleo, nonostante il maggior rilievo che dà ad alcuni alimenti integrali, è solo un’ennesima variante delle stesse fobie legate ai carboidrati.Campbell ci spiega l’origine della convinzione secondo cui i carboidrati farebbero male e il motivo per cui questa teoria continua a sopravvivere nonostante tutte le prove scientifiche che dimostrano il contrario.Gli alimenti che in modo fuorviante definiamo “carboidrati” non sono tutti uguali per natura, e trattarli come tali ha gravi conseguenze negative per il nostro benessere nutrizionale.Se state pensando di adottare una dieta a basso contenuto di carboidrati, leggete prima questo libro: cambierà il vostro modo di considerare gli alimenti che mangiate, e quelli che scegliete per perdere peso e ottimizzare la salute, nell’immediato così come a lungo termine.Gli autoriColin Campbell è un famoso biochimico americano, nutrizionista e professore emerito alla Cornell University, considerato uno dei ricercatori alimentari più eminenti e riconosciuti in tutto il mondo. Il suo libro The China Study, basato sul Progetto Cina, ha portato a un cambiamento epocale nella storia dell’alimentazione. Pioniere nello studio del rapporto tra nutrizione e salute, tra dieta e malattie, Campbell dimostra nei suoi studi come il consumo di proteine animali sia evidentemente correlato allo sviluppo di cancro e malattie cardiache. The China Study è uno dei più vasti studi epidemiologici sulla dieta mai realizzati prima e una mastodontica ricerca sulla relazione tra cibo e malattia. Gli studi di Campbell sono stati pubblicati in più di 300 articoli.Cresciuto in una fattoria tradizionale e abituato a nutrirsi di carne tutti i giorni, ha modificato le sue abitudini dopo aver conseguito la laurea specialistica e il dottorato in “Nutrizione Biochimica” presso la Cornell University. Colin Campbell ha adottato una dieta vegana e naturale a partire dagli anni ‘90.Per oltre 20 anni ha lavorato nelle Commissioni della National Academy of Science, contribuendo alla stesura e allo sviluppo di politiche nazionali e internazionali sul binomio alimentazione salute.Nel 2010, dopo l'intervento cardiaco, l'ex presidente degli Stati Uniti Bill Clinton ha deciso di adottare la dieta raccomandata da Campbell, Caldwell Esselstyn, e Dean Ornish.Oggi, Campbell Colin, asserisce che la sana nutrizione è la vera scienza biomedica del futuro. Per approfondire visita il sito ufficiale di THE CHINA STUDY www.chinastudy.it.Howard Jacobson è formatore in campo sanitario, ha conseguito il master in sanità pubblica e il dottorato in scienze sanitarie presso la Temple University, nonché una laurea in storia a Princeton.

Salute e Alimentazione

L'Inganno delle Diete Low Carb (a basso contenuto di carboidrati)

I William Shakespeares Köpmannen i Venedig lånar köpmannen Antonio pengar av den judiske procentaren Shylock för att hjälpa sin vän Bassanio att uppvakta den vackra Portia. Antonio, som inte gör någon hemlighet av sin antisemitism, måste lova att betala med ”sitt eget kött” om han inte kan återgälda sin skuld till Shylock. När Antonios skepp sedan förliser på havet står det klart att han inte kommer att kunna betala tillbaka vad han lånat. Fallet hamnar i domstol, och det verkar som att Antonio måste återgälda sin skuld. Men då inträder en tidigare okänd advokat som börjar plocka isär fallet genom att tala om nåd … Howard Jacobson tar Shakespeares storslagna hämndberättelse genom tid och rum till den blänkande moderna miljö som är Cheshires nutida gräddhylla. Här möter den judiske procentaren Shylock ett sammansatt persongalleri i berättelsen om den antisemitiske köpmannen Antonio som inte vill återbetala sin skuld. De riktigt stora, grundläggande krafterna sätts i rörelse, som alltid hos Shakespeare.

The Hogarth Shakespeare

Jag heter Shylock : Köpmannen i Venedig på nytt

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