J: A Novel

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<p><b>The brilliant new novel from the Booker prize-winning author</b></p><p>Two people fall in love, not yet knowing where they have come from or where they are going.</p><p>They arent sure if they have fallen in love of their own accord, or whether theyve been pushed into each others arms. But who would have pushed them, and why?</p><p>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.</p><p>Set in the future a world where the past is a dangerous country, not to be talked about or visited <i>J</i>is a love story of incomparable strangeness, both tender and terrifying.</p><p><b>Shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize</b> <b></b> <b>Shortlisted for the 2014 Goldsmiths Prize</b></p><p><b>Longlisted for the JQ Wingate Literary Prize</b></p>

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<b>Howard Jacobson</b>has written fifteen novels and five works of non-fiction. He won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Award in 2000 for<i>The Mighty Walzer</i>and then again in 2013 for<i>Zoo Time</i>. In 2010 he won the Man Booker Prize for<i>The Finkler Question</i>and was also shortlisted for the prize in 2014 for his most recent novel,<i>J</i>.

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