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4003586Shylock Is My Namehttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/shylock-is-my-name-9780804141338/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2549230/164b0fa3-0173-429c-b572-d2620283e72a.jpg?v=638384126490370000249324MXNRandom House Publishing GroupInStock/Ebooks/<p><strong>Man Booker Prize-winner Howard Jacobson brings his singular brilliance to this modern re-imagining of one of Shakespeares most unforgettable characters: Shylock</strong></p><p>Winter, a cemetery, Shylock. In this provocative and profound interpretation of <em>The Merchant of Venice</em>, 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.</p><p>While Strulovich struggles to reconcile himself to his daughter Beatrices betrayal of her family and heritageas 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 fieldShylock alternates grief for his beloved wife with rage against his own daughters rejection of her Jewish upbringing. Culminating in a shocking twist on Shylocks demand for the infamous pound of flesh, Jacobsons 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 antecedenta drama which Jacobson himself considers to be the most troubling of Shakespeares plays for anyone, but, for an English novelist who happens to be Jewish, also the most challenging.</p>...3939388Shylock Is My Name249324https://www.gandhi.com.mx/shylock-is-my-name-9780804141338/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2549230/164b0fa3-0173-429c-b572-d2620283e72a.jpg?v=638384126490370000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20169780804141338_W3siaWQiOiIzN2Y4YjM2Yi1hOTlkLTRlZWEtOGU3Yi04OTg5NTZiYTE0MDUiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjMwNCwiZGlzY291bnQiOjcwLCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjIzNCwiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjUtMDItMDVUMDU6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9780804141338_<p><strong>Man Booker Prize-winner Howard Jacobson brings his singular brilliance to this modern re-imagining of one of Shakespeares most unforgettable characters: Shylock</strong></p><p>Winter, a cemetery, Shylock. In this provocative and profound interpretation of <em>The Merchant of Venice</em>, 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.</p><p>While Strulovich struggles to reconcile himself to his daughter Beatrices betrayal of her family and heritageas 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 fieldShylock alternates grief for his beloved wife with rage against his own daughters rejection of her Jewish upbringing. Culminating in a shocking twist on Shylocks demand for the infamous pound of flesh, Jacobsons 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 antecedenta drama which Jacobson himself considers to be the most troubling of Shakespeares plays for anyone, but, for an English novelist who happens to be Jewish, also the most challenging.</p>...9780804141338_Random House Publishing Grouplibro_electonico_f756e7c2-f37a-3c53-9d6e-eec4de91161b_9780804141338;9780804141338_9780804141338Howard JacobsonInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/RandomHouse-epub-2d939646-f0c6-4bd3-b81b-3ab52bd62ed8.epub2016-02-09T00:00:00+00:00Random House Publishing Group