J: A NOVEL by Howard Jacobson ( 9780224101974 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

J: A NOVEL

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Format:

Hardback

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ISBN 10:

0224101978

ISBN 13:

9780224101974

Publisher:

VINTAGE PUBLISHING

Pub. date:

14 August, 2014

Pages:

336

Description:

Kevern doesn't know why his father always drew two fingers across his lips when he said a word starting with a J. It wasn't then, and isn't now, the time or place to be asking questions. Ailinn too has grown up in the dark about who she was or where she came from. On their first date Kevern kisses the bruises under her eyes.

Synopsis:

This book was shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker 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. Two people fall in love, not yet knowing where they have come from or where they are going. Kevern doesn't know why his father always drew two fingers across his lips when he said a word starting with a J. It wasn't then, and isn't now, the time or place to be asking questions. Ailinn too has grown up in the dark about who she was or where she came from. On their first date Kevern kisses the bruises under her eyes. He doesn't ask who hurt her. Brutality has grown commonplace. 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 the lives of all the characters in this novel is a momentous catastrophe - a past event shrouded in suspicion, denial and apology, now referred to as What Happened, If It Happened.J is a novel to be talked about in the same breath as Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New World, thought-provoking and life-changing. It is like no other novel that Howard Jacobson has written.

Publication:

Imprint:

Jonathan Cape Ltd

Prizes:

Short-listed for Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize 2016 Short-listed for Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2014 Long-listed for Folio Prize 2015

Returns:

Non-returnable

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