Howard Jacobson, geboren 1942 in Manchester, zählt zu den renommiertesten Autoren Großbritanniens.
Seine Romane erscheinen in zwanzig Ländern und wurden vielfach ausgezeichnet, u. a. 2010 mit dem Booker-Preis.
Mit “Pussy” erscheint Jacobsons neuester Roman auf Deutsch bei Tropen.
39 Ebooks by Howard Jacobson
Howard Jacobson: Ovid’s Heroidos
A series of letters purportedly written by Penelope, Dido, Medea, and other heroines to their lovers, the Heroides represents Ovid’s initial attempt to revitalize myth as a subject for literature. In …
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Howard Jacobson: Pussy
Ein Jahr Donald Trump – eine bissige Gesellschaftssatire vom Booker-Preisträger
In der einst so friedlichen Republik Urbs-Ludus sind unruhige Zeiten angebrochen: Zu viele ausländische Brotbäcker …
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Howard Jacobson: Shylock
Von rebellischen Töchtern und verblendeten Vätern
Der reiche Kunstsammler Simon Strulovitch aus Manchester hat Sorgen: Seine aufmüpfige Tochter Beatrice ist in die Kreise der leichtlebigen Erbin …
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Howard Jacobson: Shylock Is My Name
The second book in the Hogarth Shakespeare series heralds the full-on 2016 anniversary celebration of Shakespeare: Man Booker Prize winner and our great chronicler of Jewish life retells the …
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Jacobson Howard Jacobson: Finkler Question
______________WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE______________’Full of wit, warmth, intelligence, human feeling and understanding. It is also beautifully written with that sophisticated and near …
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Jacobson Howard Jacobson: In the Land of Oz
_______________’A wildly funny account of his travels … it actually is a book which makes you laugh out loud on almost every page’ – Literary Review’The most successful attempt I know to grip the …
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Howard Jacobson: Zoo Time
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”Comedy is never as clever as when Howard Jacobson is on a roll and this book finds him barrelling”
– Independent on Sunday
”Brilliantly composed … crackling with Ja …
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Howard Jacobson: Act of Love
No man has ever loved a woman and not imagined her in the arms of someone else.Felix Quinn calls himself a happy man. He owns one of London’s oldest antiquarian bookshops. He is married to and adores …
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Howard Jacobson: Coming From Behind
In an ever divided Britain, this wryly observed novel is a timely and thought-provoking read from the Booker-winning author of The Finkler Question.’A very funny, bitterly intelligent novel…do read …
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Howard Jacobson: Kalooki Nights
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 …
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Howard Jacobson: Making of Henry
One day, out of the blue, Henry Nagel inherits a sumptuous apartment in St John’s Wood. Divine intervention? Or his late father’s love nest? Henry doesn’t know, but he is glad to escape the North. …
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Howard Jacobson: Who”s Sorry Now
Marvin Kreitman, the luggage baron of South London, lives for sex. Or at least he lives for women. At present he loves four women – his mother, his wife Hazel, and his two daughters – and is in love …
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Howard Jacobson: Redback
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 …
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Howard Jacobson: Peeping Tom
Barney Fugleman has two major preoccupations in life: sex and literature. He is obsessed by the life and work of a man hailed by many as a genius of the nineteenth century – and by Barney as a …
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Howard Jacobson: No More Mr Nice Guy
Frank Ritz is a television critic. His partner, Melissa Paul, is the author of pornographic novels for liberated women. He watches crap all day; she writes crap all day. It’s a life. Or it was a …
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Howard Jacobson: Mighty Walzer
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 …
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Howard Jacobson: Shylock is My Name
A re-envisaging of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, from the Man Booker Prize-winner and our great chronicler of Jewish life. Who is this guy, Dad? What is he doing here? With an absent wife and …
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Howard Jacobson: Roots Schmoots
From a Booker Prize-winning author, an “informed and witty” travelogue exploring America, Israel, Lithuania, and the nature of Jewish identity (Publishers Weekly). Howard Jacobson …
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Howard Jacobson: J: A Novel
A thought-provoking prescient novel from the Booker-prize winning author of The Finkler Question. Remarkable May well come to be seen as the dystopian British novel of its times Guardian Two people …
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Howard Jacobson: Pussy
A provocatively entertaining, savagely funny satire on Donald Trump by Britain s greatest comic novelist.Pussy is the story of Prince Fracassus, heir presumptive to the Duchy of Origen, famed for its …
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Howard Jacobson: Live a Little
‘A . . . tender love story . . . This book is alive. It pulses with warmth and intelligence’ The Times A wickedly observed novel about falling in love at the end of your life, by the Man Booker …
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Howard Jacobson: Whatever It Is, I Don”t Like It
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”[An] acutely observed collection of occasional pieces that pick at absurdist life and reveal him to be a quiz, a cultural critic gifted with precise comic timing”
– The Time …
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Howard Jacobson: The Dog”s Last Walk
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”[An] acutely observed collection of occasional pieces that pick at absurdist life and reveal him to be a quiz, a cultural critic gifted with precise comic timing”
– The Time …
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D H Lawrence: Women in Love
What beauties the book contains! There are many pages in it so saturated with warm and lovely intimacies that one reads absorbed Guardian Women in Love begins one blossoming spring day in England and …
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Howard Jacobson: Rendezvous und andere Alterserscheinungen
Die energische Beryl Dusinbery kämpft jeden Tag gegen das Vergessen, während sich Shimi Carmelli am liebsten an gar nichts mehr erinnern würde. Ein unwahrscheinlicheres Paar gab es selten, doch jede …
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David Benmayer & Rebecca Taylor: Age of Confidence: The New Jewish Culture Wave
Taking the terrorist attacks of 9/11 as their starting point, five new essays look at how Jewish culture has changed over the past two decades. Covering music (Vanessa Paloma Elbaz), art (Monica Bohm …
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Joseph Heller: Catch-22
**AS SEEN ON BBC TWO’s BETWEEN THE COVERS**Discover Joseph Heller’s hilarious and tragic satire on military madness, and the tale of one man’s efforts to survive it.It’s the closing months of World …
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Harry Borden: Survivor
‘A masterpiece and deeply moving’ – Alain de Botton’A wonderful piece of work’ – Lynn Barber"…something really to behold, a substantial project of some real depth and authority. By flicking …
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Howard Jacobson: Kalooki Nights
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 …
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Howard Jacobson: Mother’s Boy
‘One of the all-time great memoirs’ Daily Telegraph’Wonderful…candid, shrewd and moving’ William Boyd’Laugh-out-loud glorious and uproarious’ Simon Schama Howard Jacobson’s funny, revealing and …
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Howard Jacobson: What Will Survive of Us
Love can change your life. Can it survive marriage and middle age?’A rare gift and one to be treasured’ SUNDAY TIMES A profound and vital book WILLIAM BOYDLily falls in love with Sam the minute she …
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