{"product_id":"9781784878863","title":"Shylock is My Name : The Merchant of Venice, Retold by Howard Jacobson","description":"Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice is brilliantly reinvented by Howard Jacobson, in his merciless, sharp and funny story of revenge, justice and antisemitism. 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...   Howard Jacobson's version of The Merchant of Venice bends time to its own advantage as it asks what it means to be a father, a Jew and a merciful human being in the modern world.   `Inspired...It does what any good literary subversion should do: deepens and enhances one's appreciation of the original' Guardian`Jacobson's prose has the sort of elastic precision you only get from a writer who is truly in command. There's also deep and sincere soul-searching going on here' IndependentSHAKESPEARE RETOLD: Time travel. Zombies. Power-hungry media moguls. This is Shakespeare as you've never seen him before: nine iconic plays transformed by the best novelists of our time, with covers by Michael Craig-Martin.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56369154163061,"sku":"9781784878863","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781784878863.jpg?v=1763552284","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781784878863","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}