J

Howard Jacobson

earliest edition we have, 2014 Jonathan Cape, 2014 hardcover 336 pages

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...

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J ebook · 2014 · Vintage Digital · 336 pages · 9781473512573
J hardcover · 2014 · Jonathan Cape · 336 pages · 9780224101974

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