{"product_id":"shylock-is-my-name-william-shakespeares-the-merchant-of-venice-retold-a-novel-9780804141345","title":"Shylock Is My Name: William Shakespeare's the Merchant of Venice Retold: A Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003eMan Booker Prize-winner Howard Jacobson brings his singular brilliance to this modern re-imagining of one of Shakespeare's most unforgettable characters: Shylock\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWinter, a cemetery, Shylock. In this provocative and profound interpretation of \u003ci\u003eThe Merchant of Venice\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhile Strulovich struggles to reconcile himself to his daughter Beatrice's \"betrayal\" of her family and heritage--as 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 field--Shylock alternates grief for his beloved wife with rage against his own daughter's rejection of her Jewish upbringing. Culminating in a shocking twist on Shylock's demand for the infamous pound of flesh, Jacobson's 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 antecedent--a drama which Jacobson himself considers to be \"the most troubling of Shakespeare's plays for anyone, but, for an English novelist who happens to be Jewish, also the most challenging.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHOWARD JACOBSON\u003c\/b\u003e has written fourteen novels and five works of non-fiction. In 2010 he won the Man Booker Prize for \u003ci\u003eThe Finkler Question\u003c\/i\u003e and was also shortlisted for the prize in 2014 for his most recent novel, \u003ci\u003e J\u003c\/i\u003e. Howard Jacobson's first book, \u003ci\u003eShakespeare's Magnanimity\u003c\/i\u003e, written with the scholar Wilbur Sanders, was a study of four Shakespearean heroes. Now he has returned to the Bard with a contemporary interpretation of \u003ci\u003eThe Merchant of Venice\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Hogarth Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50461178233106,"sku":"9780804141345","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2fc21b84-5fde-412d-8eb5-5c3595f369cc.jpg?v=1730059063","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/shylock-is-my-name-william-shakespeares-the-merchant-of-venice-retold-a-novel-9780804141345","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}