WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 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 theyve 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.