Live a little. Jacobson Howard

She is ninety with something there. She almost remembers nothing and nothing, even her sons. But she has not lost her causticity. For days, she embroiders gloomy statements and harasses home assistants with confusing stories of her love affairs.

He is the last promising bachelor of Northern London. He fasten the buttons without outside help, walks on his two and does not spray saliva when he says. But, unlike her, he did not forget anything, even what he would like to forget.

this two is not so much time left on Earth... But suddenly he is enough to heal heart wounds and find a new one meaning of life? To live a little?

In his new novel, the British writer, laureate of the Buker Prize, Howard Jacobson (“Jay”, “My name is Shelok”) with his inherent irony, paradoxically sad and encouraging at the same time, encourages their heroes to confront the inevitable , and the reader - think about his own capabilities and chances.