Description: **Finalist for the 2014 Man Booker Prize Praise for J : "Remarkable... Comparisons do not do full justice to Jacobson's achievement in what may well come to be seen as the dystopian British novel of its times." -John Burnside, Guardian "Asnarling, effervescent and ambitious philosophical work of fiction that poses unsettling questions about our sense of history, and our self-satisfied orthodoxies. Jacobson's triumph is to craft a novel that is poignant as well as troubling from the debris." - Independent "Fine, you can call him the British Philip Roth, but J makes me wonder when the hell we're going to have someone with the staggering talent that we can call an American Howard Jacobson." -Shalom Auslander, author of Hope: A Tragedy " J is a dystopia that invites comparison with George Orwell's 1984 and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World ." - Sunday Times "Mystifying, serious, and blackly funny... J shows that, for a writer working at the peak of his powers, with the themes of his imagined future very much part of our present, laughter in the dark is the only kind." - Independent on Sunday "Brilliant... J is a firework display of verbal invention, as entertaining as it is unsettling." - Jewish Chronicle "Readers...will find plenty to think and talk about in Jacobson's remarkable, disturbing book." -- Booklist (starred) " J is a remarkable achievement: an affecting, unsettling--and yes, darkly amusing--novel that offers a picture of the horror of a sanitized world whose dominant mode is elegiac, but where the possibility of elegy is everywhere collectively proscribed." - National "Contemporary literature is overloaded with millenarian visions of destroyed landscapes and societies in flames, but Jacobson has produced one that feels frighteningly new by turning the focus within: the ruins here are the ruins of language, imagination, love itself." - Telegraph "[J]'s success owes much to the fine texture of its dystopia... Jacobson has crafted an immersive, complex experience with care and guile." - Observer "Jacobson...goes from strength to strength. This is a new departure: futuristic, dystopian, not, it seems, the world as we know it. But as we peer through the haze we see something take shape. It's horrible. It's monstrous. Read this for yourself and you'll see what it is." - Evening Standard "A provocative dystopian fantasy to stack next to Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go , J has the kind of nightmarish twist which makes you want to turn back to page one immediately and read the whole thing again." - Sunday Express Praise for Howard Jacobson: "A real giant, a great, great writer." -Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Everything is Illuminated "Mr. Jacobson doesn't just summon [Philip] Roth; he summons Roth at Roth's best." -Janet Maslin, New York Times "Jacobson's capacity to explore the minutiae of the human condition while attending to the metaphysics of human existence is without contemporary peer." -Daily Beast

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