What it means to be Jewish, seen through both an insider’s and outsider’s eyes. Start your discussion with our new guide to The Finkler Question

We’re excited to announce that as of today, the discussion guide for Howard Jacobson’s provocative yet humorous Man Booker Prize–winning novel The Finkler Question is available to buy in print and PDF. Every guide includes:

· Novel Synopsis
· Author Information
· Character Analysis
· Themes, Writing Style & Structure, and Symbols
· Discussion Questions
· Important Quotes from the Novel

With every print version, you will also receive a Bookclub-in-a-Box bookmark and a complementary RAG (Read-Alongside Guide) to aid your discussion.

Click here to buy the guide now! »

About the novel: Despite a prickly relationship and very different lives, old school friends Julian Treslove and Sam Finkler 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. But as Treslove makes his way home, he is attacked and mugged outside a violin dealer’s window. And after this, his whole sense of who he is slowly and ineluctably changes.

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