2010 Booker Prize Winner
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'He should have seen it coming. His life had been one mishap after another. So he should
have been prepared for this one...'

Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC radio producer, and Sam Finkler,
a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school friends.
Despite a prickly relationship and very different lives, they've never quite lost touch with
each other - or with their former teacher, Libor Sevcik, a Czech always more concerned with
the wider world than with exam results.

Now, both Libor and Sam are recently widowed, and with Treslove, his chequered and
unsuccessful record with women rendering him an honorary third widower, they dine at Libor's
grand, central London apartment. It's a sweetly painful evening of reminiscence in which all
three remove themselves to a time before they had loved and lost; a time before they had
fathered children, before the devastation of separations, before they had prized anything
greatly enough to fear the loss of it. Better, perhaps, to go through life without knowing
happiness at all because that way you have less to mourn? Treslove finds he has tears enough
for the unbearable sadness of both his friends' losses.

And it's that very evening, at exactly 11:30, as Treslove, walking home, hesitates a moment
outside the window of the oldest violin dealer in the country, that he is attacked. And after
this, his whole sense of who and what he is will slowly and ineluctably change.

The Finkler Question is a scorching story of friendship and loss, exclusion and belonging,
and of the wisdom and humanity of maturity. Funny, furious, unflinching, this extraordinary
novel shows one of our finest writers at his brilliant best.

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