Shylock is My Name

Winner of the Booker Prize
\'The funniest British novelist since Kingsley Amis or Tom Sharpe\' Mail on Sunday

\'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