J: A Novel by Howard Jacobson

J: A Novel by Howard Jacobson

Shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize Shortlisted for the 2014 Goldsmiths Prize 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.

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 *

Howard Jacobson has written sixteen novels and five 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.

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ISBN 13	9780224102056
ISBN 10	0224102052
Title	J: A Novel
Author	Howard Jacobson
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	2014-08-14
Number of pages	336
Prizes	Short-listed for Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2014 (UK), Short-listed for The Goldsmiths Prize 2014 (UK), Short-listed for Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize 2016 (UK), Long-listed for The Folio Prize 2015 (UK)
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