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World Book Club: Howard Jacobson - The Finkler Question

Howard Jacobson - The Finkler Question

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Howard Jacobson discusses his Man Booker Prize winner The Finkler Question.

Howard Jacobson discusses his Man Booker Prize winner The Finkler Question with Harriet Gilbert and a World Book Club audience.

This week we've the third edition in our London Calling season of World Book Clubs which are going out each Saturday during May. 

This week we're talking to Howard Jacobson at the first Soho Literary Festival in the heart of the UK capital about his dazzling Booker Prize-winning novel The Finkler Question. 

A moving but often laugh-out-loud fictional foray into what it means to be Jewish Jacobson's award-winning novel features three old school friends who despite their very different lives have never quite lost touch. 

Over dinner one balmy London evening they revisit a time before they had all loved and lost, unaware that an event later that night will change their lives for ever.

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