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J: A Novel

by Howard Jacobson
J: A Novel - Thryft
J: A Novel - Thryft
  • Booker Prize Nominee (2014)
  • Goldsmiths Prize Nominee (2014)
  • Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize Nominee (2016)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

J: A Novel

by Howard Jacobson
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ISBN: 9780224101974
Authors: Howard Jacobson
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Date of Publication: 2014-08-14
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Contemporary, Science Fiction
Related Topics: Literature, Dystopia, Speculative Fiction, Dystopia
Goodreads rating: 2.93
(rated by 3612 readers)

Description

An alternate cover edition can be found here.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 world 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.
 
  • Booker Prize Nominee (2014)
  • Goldsmiths Prize Nominee (2014)
  • Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize Nominee (2016)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.