Finkler

Finkler is Jewish and Treslove uses the word "Finkler" to mean "Jew" – hence the title of the book comes to mean "The Jewish Question".

The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson Edward Docx 2010

Howard Jacobson is always a sparkling writer, but to claim that The Finkler Question was "the first comic novel to win the Booker", as the critics were saying, is to miss its point entirely.

Howard Jacobson offers a contrary voice in the arts Nick Cohen 2010

• And finally, the title grumpiest man of the week goes to author Howard Jacobson, whose view of modern life doesn't appear to have been lifted by his long-awaited Booker triumph with The Finkler Question.

Hugh Muir's diary 2011

The Finkler Question ($15, 320pp., published stateside this week by Bloomsbury USA) is about chronic dissatisfaction.

David Finkle: Easy Reader: Howard Jacobson's Novel Takes the Prize David Finkle 2010

In The Finkler Question, Julian Treslove's sex life is, in keeping with the rest of the novel, both comic and sad.

Let's not talk about sex – why passion is waning in British books Susanna Rustin 2010

"Profoundly self-important, you mean," snaps his wife, but her scorn has no effect on Finkler.

Howard Jacobson offers a contrary voice in the arts Nick Cohen 2010

Sam Finkler, Jacobson's media don, announces on Desert Island Discs "with a falter in his voice" that although he is Jewish, "on the matter of Palestine I am profoundly ashamed".

Howard Jacobson offers a contrary voice in the arts Nick Cohen 2010

Even if you believe Jacobson's victims are fine men and women, who deserve their high opinion of themselves, I hope that you are broad-minded enough to accept that The Finkler Question makes a refreshing change from the party-line dramas of the subsidised theatres and broadcasters.

Howard Jacobson offers a contrary voice in the arts Nick Cohen 2010

With Howard Jacobson taking the £50,000 award on Tuesday for The Finkler Question, the comic novel may finally have earned its moment in the limelight.

Let's not talk about sex – why passion is waning in British books Susanna Rustin 2010

Jubilation as prize finally goes Howard's wayThe bookmakers were not the only ones cheering when outsider Howard Jacobson (18/1) came from behind to take the Booker prize with his bittersweet novel The Finkler Question (Bloomsbury).

The Booker prize is just another flea circus for writers Robert McCrum 2010