Kalooki Nights by Howard Jacobson

This book features a cartoonist narrator who's ambivalent about his own Judaism. While a lot of the book is a meditation on love, relationships, and loneliness (the narrator has three failed marriages behind him), insofar as there is a plot, it deals with the narrator's resumption of friendship with Manny Washinsky, whom he knew as a boy, and who gassed his parents in their sleep. I found this book much more enjoyable than The Finkler Question, the 2010 winner of the Man Booker Prize, also by Howard Jacobson, but that may be because I am more used to Jacobson's work now.