J

A Novel

Howard Jacobson

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Vintage
01 September 2015

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

The brilliant new novel from the Booker prize-winning author. Two people fall in love, not yet knowing where they have come from or where they are going. They aren't sure if they have fallen in love of their own accord, or whether they've been pushed into each other's arms. But who would have pushed them, and why? Hanging over their lives is a momentous catastrophe - a past event shrouded in suspicion, denial and apology, now referred to as What Happened, If It Happened. Set in the future - a world where the past is a dangerous country, not to be talked about or visited - J is a love story of incomparable strangeness, both tender and terrifying. Short-listed for the 2014 Man Booker Prize. Short-listed for the 2014 Goldsmiths Prize.

By: Howard Jacobson
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 234g
ISBN: 9780099598381
ISBN 10: 0099598388
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 01 September 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Howard Jacobson won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse award in 2000 for The Mighty Walzer and then again in 2013 for Zoo Time. In 2010 he won the Man Booker Prize for The Finkler Question and was also shortlisted for the prize in 2013 for his most recent novel, J. He has written fourteen novels and five works of non-fiction.

Reviews for J: A Novel

A mighty novel. * Observer * Remarkable… May well come to be seen as the dystopian British novel of its times * Guardian * Thrilling and enigmatic * New York Times Book Review * Snarling, effervescent and ambitious… Jacobson’s triumph is to craft a novel that is poignant as well as troubling * Independent * Jacobson…goes from strength to strength. -- William Leith * Evening Standard * Very little about Jacobson’s circuitous romance-cum-murder mystery is straightforward – other than its originality and its devastating brilliance. -- Stephanie Cross * Daily Mail * A dystopia that invites comparison with George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World * Sunday Times * Mystifying, serious and blackly funny. -- Max Liu * Independent on Sunday *