Kalooki Nights

Written by Howard Jacobson

Narrated by Steven Crossley

Life should have been sunny for Max Glickman, growing up in peacetime, with his mother's glamorous card evenings to look forward to, and photographs of his father's favourite boxers on the walls. But other voices whisper to him of Buchenwald, extermination, and the impossibility of forgetting. Fixated on the crimes which have been committed against his people, but unable to live among them, Max moves away, marries out, and draws cartoon histories of Jewish suffering in which no one, least of all the Jews, is much interested. But it's a life. Or it seems a life until Max's childhood friend, Manny is released from prison...

• Language: English
• Publisher: W. F. Howes Audio
• Release date: Jan 8, 2006
• ISBN: 9781846320545

Howard Jacobson

Howard Jacobson

Reviews for Kalooki Nights

[richardgarside · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Hops about a bit - but in the end the three threads merge well to a good climatic ending

[bobaloo624u · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

The usual casr of inmates in Yorkshire's fictional police department, this account weaves three separate stories into one. A recently released, wrongly accused felon and his weird relationship with the officer who put him in prison intertwined with a young constable's fatal attraction to his librarian amour; topped-off by another officer's alternative lifestyle that includes a homeless boy who feeds him news of local criminal activity.All in all a good read, but sometimes confusing as it jumps from story to story and character to character.

[thorold_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Another entertaining, complex Dalziel and Pascoe novel. This time the literary hook is the relatively obscure Romantic poet Thomas Lovell Beddoes, and we have an engaging bit of academic skulduggery involving competing biographies. A small irritation is that neither the author nor the publisher has bothered to get a native speaker to check the little bits of German that are scattered throughout the text, leaving a number of annoying little typos. Not very professional.Something to be aware of is that, whilst most of the D&P novels are essentially self-contained, this one follows closely on from Dialogues of the Dead — in essence, it's a reopening of that case — so, especially if you are obsessive about spoilers, make sure you've read the earlier book first.