{"product_id":"shylock-is-my-name","title":"Shylock is My Name (Vintage Classics Shakespeare Series)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWinter, a cemetery, Shylock. In this provocative and profound interpretation of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Merchant of Venice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Shylock is juxtaposed against his present-day counterpart in the character of art dealer and conflicted father Simon Strulovitch. With characteristic irony, Jacobson presents Shylock as a man of incisive wit and passion, concerned still with questions of identity, parenthood, anti-Semitism and revenge.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhile Strulovich struggles to reconcile himself to his daughter Beatrice's \"betrayal\" of her family and heritage – as she is carried away by the excitement of Manchester high society, and into the arms of a footballer notorious for giving a Nazi salute on the field – Shylock alternates grief for his beloved wife with rage against his own daughter's rejection of her Jewish upbringing. Culminating in a shocking twist on Shylock's demand for the infamous pound of flesh, Jacobson's insightful retelling examines contemporary, acutely relevant questions of Jewish identity while maintaining a poignant sympathy for its characters and a genuine spiritual kinship with its antecedent – a drama which Jacobson himself considers to be \"the most troubling of Shakespeare's plays for anyone, but, for an English novelist who happens to be Jewish, also the most challenging.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42059657314339,"sku":null,"price":699.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/3607\/9395\/files\/71G1HyARl1L._SY522.jpg?v=1774696794","url":"https:\/\/champaca.in\/products\/shylock-is-my-name","provider":"Champaca Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}