Speakers: Howard Jacobson, Jonathan Freedland

The Finkler Question is the ‘first unashamedly comic novel’ to win the prestigious Booker Prize and flagrantly Jewish to boot. Howard Jacobson and Jonathan Freedland – two restlessly questing souls – will wrestle “finklerisms” in intellectual combat: Does Jewishness provide a “way in” to the deep and meaningful questions of life? Is life invariably melancholy? Are friends inevitably disloyal? Can love endure? Join these two mighty Mega-Wits in their contemplation of life’s tragicomic dimensions as they compete for JBW 2011’s final word.