“The book's appeal to Jewish readers is obvious, but like all great Jewish art - the paintings of Marc Chagall, the books of Saul Bellow, the films of Woody Allen - it is Jacobson's use of the Jewish experience to explain the greater human one that sets it apart. Profile of Howard Jacobson in The New York Times. Jacobson is also a respected critic and broadcaster, and writes a weekly column for the Independent.
His many novels include The Mighty Walzer (winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize), Who’s Sorry Now? and Kalooki Nights (both longlisted for the Man Booker Prize), and, most recently, The Act of Love. Howard Jacobson was born in Manchester, England, and educated at Cambridge.
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