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OverviewA life-changing novel by one of Britain's greatest novelists, winner of the Man Booker Prize in 2010 A thought-provoking prescient novel from the Booker-prize winning author of The Finkler Question. 'Remarkable...May well come to be seen as the dystopian British novel of its times' Guardian 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. Shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize, the 2014 Goldsmiths Prize and Longlisted for the JQ Wingate Literary Prize. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Howard JacobsonPublisher: Vintage Publishing Imprint: Vintage Dimensions: Width: 12.90cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 19.80cm Weight: 0.234kg ISBN: 9780099598381ISBN 10: 0099598388 Pages: 336 Publication Date: 06 August 2015 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsReviewsA 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 * To say J is unlike any other novel Jacobson has written would be misleading: the same ferocious wit runs throughout... That said, comparisons do not do full justice to Jacobson's achievement in what may well come to be seen as the dystopian British novel of its times. -- John Burnside Guardian A snarling, effervescent and ambitious philosophical work of fiction... Jacobson's triumph is to craft a novel that is poignant as well as troubling. -- James Kidd Independent Jacobson once jokingly referred to himself as a Jewish Jane Austen. Here he reinvents himself as a Jewish Aldous Huxley - and displays mastery in the role. -- Max Davidson Mail on Sunday Jacobson has crafted an immersive, complex experience with care and guile. -- Anthony Cummins Observer J is a remarkable achievement: an affecting, unsettling - and yes, darkly amusing - novel. -- Matthew Adams National Author InformationHoward Jacobson has written seventeen novels and six works of non-fiction. He 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; he was also shortlisted for the prize in 2014 for J. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |