The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson games sated only by art and

sated only by art and experience

In the summer of 1983

In the aftermath

anxieties and obsessions onto colour for thousands of years

most of us are very wary

The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson games sated only by art andWINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 'Full of wit, warmth, intelligence, human feeling and understanding. It is also beautifully written with that sophisticated and near invisible skill of the authentic writer' Observer 'Wonderful Jacobson is seriously on form' Evening Standard Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC radio producer, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school friends.