Kalooki Nights Howard Jacobson by Howard Jacobson 9780099501367, 0099501368 instant download after payment.

Wild, angry and uproarious, Kalooki Nights is Howard Jacobson’s darkly comic 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 - why was he sent there? - the tug of religion and history proves too strong to be ignored and Max must accept there is no refuge from the dead...

"The novel is beautifully structured and Max’s first-person narration is the perfect vehicle for exploring a thought expressed in Jacobson’s previous book: that "in America the Jews had taken on a version of the national identity [and] had made the American cause their own", yet in England, they had struggled merely for the right to be left alone."  -  Jonathan Derbyshire, Financial Times

"(T)he most brilliantly ambitious (and ambitiously brilliant) of his eight novels (….) Jacobson manages to keep both of these story engines revving while never letting up on his affectionate, highly evocative detailing of the smaller family dramas that provide no end of light relief."  -  Tim Adams, New Statesman

Howard Jacobson has written sixteen novels and five works of non-fiction.  He won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Award in 2000 for The Mighty Walzer and then again in 2013 for Zoo Time. In 2010 he won the Booker Prize for The Finkler Question; he was also shortlisted for the prize in 2014 for J.