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Literary Fiction · LightTwo widowers and an old teacher meet for dinner in London, and one is mugged
The Finkler Question
2010320 pagesModerate readSteady pace
★ Booker Prize, 2010
A comic novel about friendship and Jewish identity
Julian Treslove, a non-Jewish Londoner, has dinner with his old friend Sam Finkler, a popular philosopher, and their former teacher Libor. On his way home he is mugged, and he becomes obsessed with his belief that the robber made a remark about Jews. It won the 2010 Booker Prize.
More about this book
Who
Julian Treslove, Sam Finkler and Libor Sevcik.
World
London in the 2000s.
What makes it different
It is a comic novel about identity.
Feel
Funny and sad.
Page count and cover shown for: Selected edition
Further reading
- The Finkler QuestionWikipedia