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SUMMARY:Guardian Book Club event with Howard Jacobson
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DESCRIPTION:Howard Jacobson will discuss his ninth novel\, Kalooki Nights
 . Max Glickman is a Jewish cartoonist\, born and raised in postwar Crump
 sall Park\, Manchester. His father is a boxing enthusiast and his mother
  hosts glamorous\, if rowdy\, games of kalooki (a card game similar to r
 ummy “much favoured by Jews (though not all Jews would agree) on account
  of its innate argumentativeness"). As a child he is fixated on the Holo
 caust and 20th century Jewish history\, but as an adult he moves away\, 
 and marries out of his religion. Following a reunion with childhood frie
 nd Manny\, just released from jail having served a long sentence for gas
 sing his Orthodox parents\, he is drawn back into the world he thought h
 e had left behind. A dark\, uproarious and funny meditation on identity 
 and belonging.\n\nHosted by John Mullan\, professor of English at Univer
 sity College London\, the Guardian's Book Club examines a book a month\,
  via a weekly column in the Guardian Review\, a live Q&A session with th
 e author\, and a blog-discussion of the featured novel. Mullan's first t
 hree columns discuss the book in question\; his final column consists of
  a selection of your comments from the live event and the blog. To join 
 our mailing list email book.club@guardian.co.uk.\n\nvisit: www.guardian.
 co.uk/books/series/bookclub
STATUS:TENTATIVE
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:The Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall\, Martin Harris Centre for Music
  and Drama\, Manchester
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