It won because it was the best book. You expect a book by Howard Jacobson to be very clever and very funny and it is both those things. But it is also, in a very interesting way, a very sad, melancholic book. It is comic, it is laughter, but it is laughter in the dark. [It was] absolutely a book for grownups, for people who understand that comedy and tragedy are linked.
Howard Jacobson wins Booker prize 2010 for The Finkler Question | The Guardian
Congratulations to Howard Jacobson on The Finkler Question becoming the first funny bone-tickling novel to win the Booker.
As a man with a novel that could easily be described as a lighthearted look at voyeurism and euthanasia, I’m doubly pleased.
