Bücher von Howard Jacobson

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 BOYD'Equal parts funny and challenging' DAILY TELEGRAPHLily falls in love with Sam the minute she sets eyes on him. It takes Sam a day or two longer. Curious, because Lily - independent, headstrong, rational - has never quite believed in love; while Sam - confident, passionate, romantic - thought he understood it inside out.Lily is an award-winning television documentary maker. Sam is an award-winning playwright. Both are in relationships that have quietly expired, but their encounter makes Lily and Sam come alive again. As they begin to work together on the page and on screen, an affair takes hold that they are powerless to resist.Arriving in mid-life, their relationship opens unexpected new worlds and, for Lily, offers her a surprising form of liberation. But what will happen to them when familiarity, illness and age begin to take their toll? What will survive? Taking us to the edge of desire, love and betrayal across a lifetime, What Will Survive of Us reveals what is left of us when we strip away every layer.

In a stunning follow-up to his much-heralded masterpiece, Kalooki Nights, acclaimed author Howard Jacobson has turned his mordant and uncanny sights on Felix Quinn, a rare-book dealer living in London, whose wife Marisa is unfaithful to him. All husbands, Felix maintains, secretly want their wives to be unfaithful to them. Felix hasn't always thought this way. From the moment of his first boyhood rejection, surviving the shattering effects of love and jealousy had been the study of his life. But while he is honeymooning with Marisa in Florida an event occurs that changes everything. In a moment, he goes from dreading the thought of someone else's hands on the woman he loves to thinking about nothing else. Enter Marius into Marisa's affections. And now Felix must wonder if he really is a happy man. The Act of Love is a haunting novel of love and jealousy, with stylish prose that crackles and razor-sharp dialogue, praised by the London Times as "darkly transgressive, as savage in its brilliance, as anything Jacobson has written." It is a startlingly perceptive, subtle portrait of a marriage and an excruciatingly honest, provocative exploration of sexual obsession.

»Dieser Roman gehört zu den Spätwerken, in denen so viel Weisheit und Einsicht stecken, dass man sich fragt, warum man überhaupt etwas von jüngeren Autoren liest.« The Times Literary SupplementDie 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 Begegnung lässt die beiden Alten ein wenig näher zusammenrücken. Eine unmögliche Liebesgeschichte im höchsten Alter, erzählt mit wunderbar dunklem Humor.Mit über neunzig vergisst Beryl Dusinbery alles Mögliche, nicht selten sogar die eigenen Kinder. Ihr Verstand ist jedoch so scharf wie eh und je, sehr zum Leidwesen ihrer Pflegerinnen, die von der alten Dame mit spitzen Kommentaren über Anstand und Benimm traktiert werden. Shimi Carmelli dagegen erinnert sich an jede noch so kleine Begebenheit seines Lebens, was ihn mit einem konstanten Schamgefühl erfüllt, das von den Witwen Nordlondons gerne mit Vornehmheit verwechselt wird. Da er zudem in der Lage ist, auch in hohem Alter seine Jacke noch selbst zuzuknöpfen, hat er sich unfreiwillig zum begehrtesten Junggesellen über achtzig entwickelt. Für beide scheint die Zukunft nicht mehr viel bereitzuhalten - ein perfekter Zeitpunkt also, um sich nochmal auf alles einzulassen, was das Leben bietet.

The Exagoge is a drama on the theme of the Jewish Exodus, written in Greek in the form of a Greek tragedy by a Jew living in Alexandria probably at some time during the second century BC. It survives in 269 lines - not isolated verses but forming several continuous passages - enough to give the shape of the play and to reveal Ezekiel as a tragedian of significance. For the student of Jewish literary history and thought Ezekiel is a most important source, of interest for being one of the earliest examples of Jewish exegesis and paraphrase of the Bible. Professor Jacobson accompanies the text of the play with a translation. In the commentary he examines the fragments line by line, comparing them with the biblical account and other accounts in related Jewish sources. The substantial and readable introduction examines the historical, social and intellectual background to Ezekiel and the Exagoge.