The Finkler Question

Summary

Three old friends in London, two recently widowed and one a non-Jew obsessed with what he imagines Jewishness to be, circle questions of grief, identity, and antisemitism in modern Britain. Jacobson balances broad comedy with melancholy in a register reminiscent of Bellow and Roth. The novel manages to be both a farce of male friendship and a serious meditation on belonging.