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Howard Jacobson has written seventeen novels and six works of non-fiction. He won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Award in 2000 for The Mighty Walzer and then again in 2013 for Zoo Time. In 2010 he won the Man Booker Prize for The Finkler Question; he was also shortlisted for the prize in 2014 for J.
Howard Jacobson's latest, and brazenly autobiographical book is a savagely funny, bittersweet homage to growing up Jewish in 1950s Manchester. The contradictory central character - Oliver Walzer, is, at the outset, a chronically shy but relentlessly filthy-minded teen, good for nothing except ping-pong at which he excels. A misogynistic mummy's (or rather, aunties') boy he struggles to get a grip in the macho world of his market trader father and the Kardomah - coffeehouse and mecca of sin for randy teenagers. He eventually escapes to Cambridge and further humiliations only to return years later finally proving that home really is where the heart is no matter how much you think you hate it. (Kirkus UK)
