{"product_id":"2940169091144","title":"Shylock Is My Name","description":"\u003cb\u003eMan Booker Prize-winner Howard Jacobson brings his singular brilliance to this modern re-imagining of one of Shakespeare's most unforgettable characters: Shylock\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eWinter, a cemetery, Shylock. In this provocative and profound interpretation of \"The Merchant of Venice,\" Shylock is juxtaposed against his present-day counterpart in the character of art dealer and conflicted father Simon Strulovitch.  With characteristic irony, Jacobson presents Shylock as a man of incisive wit and passion, concerned still with questions of identity, parenthood, anti-Semitism and revenge.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile Strulovich struggles to reconcile himself to his daughter Beatrice's \"betrayal\" of her family and heritage - as she is carried away by the excitement of Manchester high society, and into the arms of a footballer notorious for giving a Nazi salute on the field - Shylock alternates grief for his beloved wife with rage against his own daughter's rejection of her Jewish upbringing. Culminating in a shocking twist on Shylock's demand for the infamous pound of flesh, Jacobson's insightful retelling examines contemporary, acutely relevant questions of Jewish identity while maintaining a poignant sympathy for its characters and a genuine spiritual kinship with its antecedent-a drama which Jacobson himself considers to be \"the most troubling of Shakespeare's plays for anyone, but, for an English novelist who happens to be Jewish, also the most challenging.\"","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47114003349744,"sku":"2940169091144","price":17.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169091144_p0.jpg?v=1763671930","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169091144","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}