New Releases by Howard Jacobson

From a Booker Prize-winning author, an “informed and witty” travelogue exploring America, Israel, Lithuania, and the nature of Jewish identity (Publishers Weekly). Howard Jacobson had been hoping to make a journey to Lithuania to search for his Jewish roots. So when the BBC offered to send him around the globe to report on a variety of Jewish communities, he accepted. The trip he recounts in this memoir takes him to New York City, where tension simmers between Jews and African Americans; to California, where he visits a gay synagogue; to Israel, where he encounters the spectrum of Jewishness from Orthodox right-wing hardliners to tolerant, peace-loving kibbutzniks. And ultimately, to Lithuania, the land of his forefathers, where he discovers that antisemitism still lurks. “A lively, irreverent but ultimately serious account of a British Jew’s search for his roots.” —Elizabeth Benedict, The New York Times “Profound and moving.” —Publishers Weekly

Story of Cain and Abel, told from the point of view of Cain, alternating Cain''s narrative with chapters set in Babel, where storytellers gather to tell of the past and the future.

Karl Leon Forelock, a Cambridge graduate and cultural operative for the CIA, travels to Australia where he becomes involved with two synchronized swimmers

De overtuiging dat hij de reïncarnatie is van de 19e eeuwse auteur Thomas Hardy wordt voor een jonge man tot een obsessie die zijn leven gaat beheersen.

Een door zijn joodse afkomst gefrustreerde leraar Engels zet zich uit jaloezie af tegen collega''s en vrienden die het verder hebben gebracht dan hij