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Kalooki Nights
  • Published: 1 February 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446413029
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 480

Kalooki Nights

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Paperback
1 Nov 2007
EBook
1 Feb 2011
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Howard Jacobson's blackest - and funniest - novel to date.


‘This book is Jacobson’s masterpiece’ Jonathan Freedland

'A work of genius' A.C. Grayling, The Times
Wild, 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. Growing up in the peace and security of the 1950s Manchester suburbs, the word 'extermination' haunts his vocabulary and Nazis lurk in his imagination.

When his childhood friend Manny is released from prison, the tug of religion and history proves too strong to be ignored and Max must accept there is no refuge from the dead...

'Raging, contentious, hilarious, holy, deicidal, heart-breaking’ Sunday Telegraph
  • Published: 1 February 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446413029
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 480

About the author

Howard Jacobson

Howard Jacobson has written eighteen novels and six works of non-fiction. He won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Award in 2000 for The Mighty Walzer and then again in 2013 for Zoo Time. In 2010 he won the Man Booker Prize for The Finkler Question; he was also shortlisted for the prize in 2014 for J.
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Praise for Kalooki Nights

What really steals one's breath away is its sharpness and depth of insight...and the remorseless tragedy it unfolds, even as it makes one laugh aloud, sometimes in shock. It is the most intelligent and important novel to appear in this country in years...It is, to repeat and to repeat plainly, a work of genius.

AC Grayling, The Times