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Shylock Is My Name audiobook
- By: Howard Jacobson
- Narrator: Michael Kitchen
- Category: Fiction, Literary
- Length: 7 hours 26 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
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Shylock Is My Name Audiobook Summary
Man Booker Prize-winner Howard Jacobson brings his singular brilliance to this modern re-imagining of one of Shakespeare’s most unforgettable characters: Shylock
Winter, a cemetery, Shylock. In this provocative and profound interpretation of The Merchant of Venice, Shylock is juxtaposed against his present-day counterpart in the character of art dealer and conflicted father Simon Strulovitch. With characteristic irony, Jacobson presents Shylock as a man of incisive wit and passion, concerned still with questions of identity, parenthood, anti-Semitism and revenge.
While Strulovich struggles to reconcile himself to his daughter Beatrice’s “betrayal” of her family and heritage—as she is carried away by the excitement of Manchester high society, and into the arms of a footballer notorious for giving a Nazi salute on the field—Shylock alternates grief for his beloved wife with rage against his own daughter’s rejection of her Jewish upbringing. Culminating in a shocking twist on Shylock’s demand for the infamous pound of flesh, Jacobson’s insightful retelling examines contemporary, acutely relevant questions of Jewish identity while maintaining a poignant sympathy for its characters and a genuine spiritual kinship with its antecedent—a drama which Jacobson himself considers to be “the most troubling of Shakespeare’s plays for anyone, but, for an English novelist who happens to be Jewish, also the most challenging.”
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Shylock Is My Name Full Details
| Narrator | Michael Kitchen |
| Length | 7 hours 26 minutes |
| Author | Howard Jacobson |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
| Release date | April 27, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9780147526953 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Shylock Is My Name is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: novel, shakespeare, the merchant of venice, jewish, fiction, literary, prize winner, man booker, england, uk, football, art, judaica, retelling, adaptation, british, satire, comic, father and daughter, family drama, love, money, betrayal, pound of flesh, quality of mercy, antisemitism, literary fiction, comedy, funny books, funny gifts, novels, humor, religious books, fiction books, religion, literature, humor books, jewish books, books fiction, jewish fiction, humorous books, realistic fiction books, satire fiction, jewish novels, Fiction, Literary, Fiction, Jewish, Fiction, Humorous The BISAC Subject Code is Fiction, Literary
Additional info
The publisher of the Shylock Is My Name is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Random House Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9780147526953.
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