About the Book: Shylock is My Name: The Merchant of Venice, Retold
Shakespeares The Merchant of Venice is ingeniously reinvented by Howard
Jacobson, in his merciless, sharp and funny story of revenge, justice and
antisemitism.
Who is this guy, Dad? What is he doing here??
With an absent wife and a daughter going off the rails, wealthy art collector
and philanthropist Simon Strulovitch is in need of someone to talk to. So when
he meets Shylock at a cemetery in Cheshire?s Golden Triangle, he invites him
back to his house. It?s the beginning of a remarkable friendship...
Inspired...It does what any good literary subversion