A re-envisaging of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice from the Man Booker Prize-winner & our great chronicler of Jewish life Who is this guy Dad? What is he doing here?' With an absent wife & a daughter going off the rails wealthy art collector & 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 Jacobson is quite simply a master of comic precision He writes like a dream' Evening Standard' The funniest British novelist since Kingsley Amis or Tom Sharpe' Mail on Sunday