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Shylock is My Name: The Merchant of Venice, Retold

By (author) Howard Jacobson

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Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice is brilliantly reinvented by Howard Jacobson, in his merciless, sharp and funny story of revenge, justice and antisemitism. 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 Cheshireâ€™s Golden Triangle, he invites him back to his house. Itâ€™s the beginning of a remarkable friendship... Howard Jacobsonâ€™s version of The Merchant of Venice bends time to its own advantage as it asks what it means to be a father, a Jew and a merciful human being in the modern world. â€˜Inspired...It does what any good literary subversion should do: deepens and enhances one's appreciation of the originalâ€™ Guardian â€˜Jacobsonâ€™s prose has the sort of elastic precision you only get from a writer who is truly in commandâ€¦ There's also deep and sincere soul-searching going on hereâ€™ Independent SHAKESPEARE RETOLD: Time travel. Zombies. Power-hungry media moguls. This is Shakespeare as youâ€™ve never seen him before: nine iconic plays transformed by the best novelists of our time, with covers by Michael Craig-Martin.