Shylock Is My Name

The Merchant of Venice Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare)

De: Howard Jacobson

Narrado por: Michael Kitchen

'Who is this guy, Dad? What is he doing here?'

With an absent wife and a daughter going off the rails, wealthy art collector and philanthropist Simon Strulovitch is in need of someone to talk to. So when he meets Shylock at a cemetery in Cheshire's Golden Triangle, he invites him back to his house. It's the beginning of a remarkable friendship.

Elsewhere in the Golden Triangle, the rich, manipulative Plurabelle (aka Anna Livia Plurabelle Cleopatra a Thing of Beauty Is a Joy Forever Christine) is the face of her own TV series, existing in a bubble of plastic surgery and lavish parties. She shares prejudices and a barbed sense of humour with her loyal friend, D'Anton, whose attempts to play Cupid involve Strulovitch's daughter - and put a pound of flesh on the line.

Howard Jacobson's version of The Merchant of Venice bends time to its own advantage as it asks what it means to be a father, a Jew and a merciful human being in the modern world.

©2016 Howard Jacobsen (P)2016 Random House Audiobooks

Can’t finish it. Reader too affected

The reader makes this sound like he is going through his own existential crisis and this is something to just get through. All the characters read about like they are all too rich and sick of life. Not sure about the book yet. I will need to read it myself to judge.