A bitterly funny story about the complexities of nonagenarian love by Jacobson, previous winner of the Man Booker Prize in 2010, often compared to the American writer Philip Roth.
James Walton, in the New York Review of Books even quoted Roth to describe the experience of reading Jacobson:
"In Roth’s The Counterlife (1986), Nathan Zuckerman’s brother, Henry, complains that “reading Nathan’s books always exhausted him, as though he were having a very long argument with someone who wouldn’t go away”—which is precisely the effect that Jacobson seeks as well. “Any book worth reading,” Jacobson has said with his customary taste for hyperbole, “will have you arguing with it by the bottom of page one.”
As many times as I put the book down, though, I always picked it back up again. An unlikely Scheherazade meets a melancholy Prince in the twilight of their lives.
Click HERE to read the review in the New York Review of Books.
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