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La vita di Max Glickman è una delle tante luminose esistenze iniziate nei prosperi anni cinquanta, in un rassicurante sobborgo di Manchester. I suoi impegni più gravosi? Osservare la madre impegnata in accese partite di kalooki, un gioco di carte simile al ramino, da cui riesce a staccarsi solo per santificare le feste. Oppure guardare alle pareti le foto degli eroi della boxe amati dal padre, un pugile fallito che soffre di epistassi, comunista fervente e ateo, incapace di accettare un Dio che lo ha tradito così malamente. Ma sulla giovinezza dorata di Max si affacciano le ombre della storia: i campi di sterminio, l'odio razziale e le deportazioni perseguitano la sua immaginazione come crimini che non si possono perdonare. Ossessionato dalla sua identità, Max cerca conforto prima nel matrimonio e poi scrivendo un'ambiziosa storia a fumetti del popolo ebraico appropriatamente intitolata Cinquemila anni di amarezza. Tutto invano. Soltanto quando ritrova il suo vecchio amico Manny Washinsky, appena uscito di prigione, Max comincia a riannodare insieme a lui i fili del passato, tra amori impossibili e segreti di famiglia tenuti nascosti troppo a lungo.
- ISBN: 8834602897
- Casa Editrice: La nave di Teseo
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- Data di uscita: 16-07-2020
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Since November first I've busied myself with writing a largely self-indulgent 'novel' in order to 'win' the National Novel Writing Month thing. Winning is just writing fifty thousand words, no one checks to see if those words mean anything when strung together nor does anyone read the words and see
Kalooki Nights In 2007, I received this book as a birthday gift from a sweet friend and colleague who knew I loved to read. I didn't like the book but still remember and am grateful for her thoughtfulness. "Kalooki Nights" by the English novelist Howard Jacobson tells a story of an English Jewish comm Leggi tutto
Kalooki Nights is the funniest Holocaust themed book I've ever read. I started out with four stars and the more I thought, the more I became convinced that this is an almost perfect book that will stay with me forever. Jacobson, the self-described love child of Jane Austen and Philip Roth, brings hi Leggi tutto
Excellent book! First I have read by Jacobson but it certainly won’t be the last. The book runs in a very long narrative that crosses between past, present and future throughout and the main character Maxie grapples with ideas of what it is to be Jewish and equally of what it is to be human. Jacobson Leggi tutto
After reading the not very positive New Yorker review of Howard Jacobson, I listened to the audiobook of Kalooki Nights. Did the reviewer actually read this book or just thumb through the beginning? I wouldn't say it is funny, ha-ha funny. It's funny in that sad sense of the surreal attempt to come
This book is not for everybody as its humor is dark. Like other Jacobson books this one explores being Jewish in a non-Jewish world. Jacobson's obvious influences are Philip Roth and Mordecai Richler but he is different from either of them, perhaps because he is British. I recommend it to those of a Leggi tutto
Very droll account of the cartoonist Max leaving behind the Jewish Manchester of his childhood and revisiting the chip on his shoulder and their childhood holocaust obsessions when he meets up with school friend and murderer Manny. Took a while for me to get into, but worth the perseverance and I co Leggi tutto
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