Fantastic reviews greeted this latest novel from Howard Jacobson and it was longlisted for the Man Booker. Comic and entertaining, yet angry, powerful and troubling, it grapples with the legacy of the Holocaust in contemporary life. 'This is a welcome return to the Yiddish-inspired humour at which Jacobson excels, and which has rightly earned him comparisons with Philip Roth' }Guardian{; 'A novel of genius' }Independent Grayling, The TimesWild, angry and uproarious, Kalooki Nights is a darkly comic, timely 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.
