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Book SynopsisHoward Jacobson has written seventeen novels and six works of non-fiction. He won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Award in 2000 for
The Mighty Walzer and then again in 2013 for
Zoo Time. In 2010 he won the Man Booker Prize for
The Finkler Question; he was also shortlisted for the prize in 2014 for
J.
Trade ReviewA mighty novel. * Observer *
Remarkable… May well come to be seen as the dystopian British novel of its times * Guardian *
Thrilling and enigmatic * New York Times Book Review *
Snarling, effervescent and ambitious… Jacobson’s triumph is to craft a novel that is poignant as well as troubling * Independent *
Jacobson…goes from strength to strength. -- William Leith * Evening Standard *
Very little about Jacobson’s circuitous romance-cum-murder mystery is straightforward – other than its originality and its devastating brilliance. -- Stephanie Cross * Daily Mail *
A dystopia that invites comparison with George Orwell’s
Nineteen Eighty-Four and Aldous Huxley’s
Brave New World * Sunday Times *
Mystifying, serious and blackly funny. -- Max Liu * Independent on Sunday *
