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So when he meets Shylock at a cemetery in Cheshire’s Golden Triangle, he invites him back to his house.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIt’s the beginning of a remarkable friendship. Elsewhere in the Golden Triangle, the rich, manipulative Plurabelle (aka Anna Livia Plurabelle Cleopatra A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever Christine) is the face of her own TV series, existing in a bubble of plastic surgery and lavish parties. She shares prejudices and a barbed sense of humour with her loyal friend D’Anton, whose attempts to play Cupid involve Strulovitch’s daughter – and put a pound of flesh on the line.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHoward Jacobson’s version of The Merchant of Venice bends time to its own advantage as it asks what it means to be a father, a Jew and a merciful human being in the modern world.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Jacobson is quite simply a master of comic precision. 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(John Burnside, Guardian)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTwo people fall in love, not yet knowing where they have come from or where they are going.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKevern doesn’t know why his father always drew two fingers across his lips when he said a word starting with a J. It wasn’t then, and isn’t now, the time or place to be asking questions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAilinn too has grown up in the dark about who she was or where she came from.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn their first date Kevern kisses the bruises under her eyes. He doesn’t ask who hurt her. Brutality has grown commonplace.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThey aren’t sure if they have fallen in love of their own accord, or whether they’ve been pushed into each other’s arms. 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