Live a Little

A wickedly observed novel about falling in love at the end of your life, by the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Finkler Question

At the age of ninety-something, Beryl Dusinbery is forgetting everything – including her own children. She spends her days stitching morbid samplers and tormenting her two long-suffering carers, Nastya and Euphoria, with tangled stories of her husbands and love affairs.

Shimi Carmelli can do up his own buttons, walks without the aid of a frame and speaks without spitting. Among the Widows of North London, he’s whispered about as the last of the eligible bachelors. Unlike Beryl, he forgets nothing – especially not the shame of a childhood incident that has hung over him like an oppressive cloud ever since.

There’s very little life remaining for either of them, but perhaps just enough to heal some of the hurt inflicted along the way, and find new meaning in what’s left. Told with Jacobson’s trademark wit and style, Live a Little is equal parts funny, irreverent and tender – a novel to make you consider all the paths not taken, and whether you could still change course.

Un roman observat rau despre indragostirea ta la sfarsitul vietii tale, de autorul castigator al Premiului Man Booker al The Finkler Question La varsta de nouazeci si ceva de ani, Beryl Dusinbery uita de toate - inclusiv de propriii ei copii. Isi petrece zilele cusand esantioane morbide si chinuindu-i pe cei doi ingrijitori indelung rabdatori, Nastya si Euphoria, cu povesti incalcite despre soti si relatii amoroase. Shimi Carmelli isi poate crea propriile butoane, merge fara ajutorul unui cadru si vorbeste fara sa scuipe. .