Description
Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular
former BBC radio producer, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish
philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school friends.
Despite very different lives, they've never quite lost touch with each
other - or with their former teacher, Libor Sevcik. Both Libor and
Finkler are recently widowed, and together with Treslove they share a
sweetly painful evening revisiting a time before they had loved and
lost. It is that very evening, when Treslove hesitates a moment as he
walks home, that he is attacked - and his whole sense of who and what he
is slowly and ineluctably changes.
