The Finkler Question

Julian Treslove, a hapless non-Jewish Englishman, is mugged outside a BBC building by a woman who may have called him a 'Jew.' The robbery triggers an obsession with Jewish identity, drawing Treslove closer to his old friends Sam Finkler, a successful Jewish philosopher, and Libor Sevcik, an elderly Czech-born widower. A comic novel about Jewish identity and loss in contemporary Britain.