# Shylock is My Name

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- Authors: [Howard Jacobson](https://www.bookquiver.com/howard-jacobson)
- Publisher: Vintage Digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-4819-179-6
- Published: 2016-02-04
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

A re-envisaging of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, from the Man Booker Prize-winner and our great chronicler of Jewish life. ‘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 ... ‘ Jacobson is quite simply a master of comic precision. He writes like a dream ’ Evening Standard 'The funniest British novelist since Kingsley Amis or Tom Sharpe' Mail on Sunday