Kalooki Nights
Kalooki Nights
Howard Jacobson
Wild, angry and uproarious, Kalooki Nights is a darkly comic, timely novel of what it means to be human.
Max Glickman is son to an atheist boxer, Jack 'The Jew' Glickman, and a glamorous card-playing mother.
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‘This book is Jacobson’s masterpiece’ Jonathan Freedland
'A work of genius' A.C. Grayling, The Times
Wild, angry and uproarious, Kalooki Nights is a darkly comic, timely novel of what it means to be human.
Max Glickman is son to an atheist boxer, Jack 'The Jew' Glickman, and a glamorous card-playing mother. Growing up in the peace and security of the 1950s Manchester suburbs, the word 'extermination' haunts his vocabulary and Nazis lurk in his imagination.
When his childhood friend Manny is released from prison, the tug of religion and history proves too strong to be ignored and Max must accept there is no refuge from the dead...
'Raging, contentious, hilarious, holy, deicidal, heart-breaking’ Sunday Telegraph
Product Description
Title - Kalooki Nights
Edition -
Author - Howard Jacobson
ISBN 13 - 9780099501367
Imprint - Vintage
Publisher - Vintage Publishing
Date Published - 06/09/2007
Prize -
No. of pages -
Binding Type - Paperback
Dimensions - 130 x 198 x 28mm
Weight - 326 g
Languages - English