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J

Paperback • 2014 • English • 1. edition

J

By Howard Jacobson

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About the book

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 aski...Show more

Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary

Book details

ISBN

9780224102056

Publisher

Vigmostad & Bjørke AS (VB Import)

Published year

2014

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

J

Format

Paperback

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