Shylock is My Name: The Merchant of Venice Retold

　　全球書迷為之瘋狂的文壇盛事
　　空前絕後的寫作計畫──
　　「挑戰莎士比亞」系列小說
　　穿越四百年，獻給 21 世紀的你
　　《控制》作者吉莉安．弗琳說：「我接下挑戰，正是因為莎士比亞的名號令人膽寒！」

　　1616年，莎士比亞離開人世，400年後的今天，我們依然從他筆下的人物中照見自己。

　　為紀念莎翁逝世 400週年，「挑戰莎士比亞」書系籌畫三年，邀請七位在文壇呼風喚雨的小說名家接下戰帖，以現代時空、全新觀點、小說形式，為 21 世紀讀者改寫莎翁經典。

　　作家直視創作本心，不畏挖掘寫作生涯中最深沉的恐懼與渴望，選定各自欲挑戰之劇作，讓「經典」不再只是書架上泛黃的紙頁，而是最貼近你我的現代新演繹。

　　★挑戰作家陣容

　　◎英國才女珍奈．溫特森
　　揭開刻骨銘心生命歷程，尋回《冬天的故事》

　　◎加拿大國寶級作家瑪格麗特．愛特伍
　　傾盡畢生功力，穿越驚濤駭浪《暴風雨》

　　◎普立茲獎小說家安．泰勒
　　慧眼洞悉世情，扭轉極具爭議的《馴悍記》

　　◎曼布克獎得主霍華．傑可布森
　　無懼自砸招牌，指定《威尼斯商人》

　　◎《戴珍珠耳環的少女》轟動文壇的崔西．雪佛蘭
　　直視心中恐懼，感動共鳴《奧賽羅》的孤寂

　　◎北歐犯罪小說天王尤．奈斯博
　　探索罪惡本質，鎖定終極殘酷《馬克白》

　　◎《控制》作者吉莉安．弗琳
　　凌厲筆鋒直剖《哈姆雷特》，讓悲劇重獲新生

　　這是出版人的挑戰、作家的挑戰，更是讀者的挑戰──
　　你準備好跨越既有的閱讀體驗，欣賞「紙上舞台」的文字演出了嗎？

　　A re-envisaging of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, from the Man Booker Prize-winner and our great chronicler of Jewish life.

　　‘Who is this guy, Dad? What is he doing here?’

　　With an absent wife and a daughter going off the rails, wealthy art collector and philanthropist Simon Strulovitch is in need of someone to talk to. So when he meets Shylock at a cemetery in Cheshire’s Golden Triangle, he invites him back to his house. It’s the beginning of a remarkable friendship ...

　　‘Jacobson is quite simply a master of comic precision. He writes like a dream’ Evening Standard

　　'The funniest British novelist since Kingsley Amis or Tom Sharpe' Mail on Sunday

作者簡介

　　Howard Jacobson has written fourteen novels and five works of non-fiction. He won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Award in 2000 for The Mighty Walzer and then again in 2013 for Zoo Time. In 2010 he won the Man Booker Prize for The Finkler Question and was also shortlisted for the prize in 2014 for his most recent novel, J. Howard Jacobson’s first book, Shakespeare’s Magnanimity, written with the scholar Wilbur Sanders, was a study of four Shakespearean heroes. Many books later he has returned to Shakespeare with a contemporary interpretation of The Merchant of Venice – 'the most troubling of Shakespeare's plays for anyone, but, for an English novelist who happens to be Jewish, also the most challenging.