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Bloomberg Press
October 2010
On Sale: October 12, 2010
320 pages
ISBN: 1608196119
EAN: 9781608196111
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Winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC
radio producer, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish
philosopher, writer, and television personality, are old
school friends. Despite a prickly relationship and very
different lives, they've never lost touch with each other,
or with their former teacher, Libor Sevcik. Dining together one night at Sevcik's apartment—the two
Jewish widowers and the unmarried Gentile, Treslove—the men
share a sweetly painful evening, reminiscing on a time
before they had loved and lost, before they had prized
anything greatly enough to fear the loss of it. But as
Treslove makes his way home, he is attacked and mugged
outside a violin dealer's window. Treslove is convinced the
crime was a misdirected act of anti-Semitism, and in its
aftermath, his whole sense of self will ineluctably change. The Finkler Question is a funny, furious, unflinching novel
of friendship and loss, exclusion and belonging, and the
wisdom and humanity of maturity.
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