The Finkler Question

Summary

Three old friends in London, two recently widowed and one not Jewish himself yet 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.