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J : A Novel by Jacobson, Howard is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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In his dystopian drama, Howard Jacobson has created a thought-provoking 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 world starting with a J. It wasn't then, and isn't now, the time or place to be asking questions. Ailinn too has grown up in the dark about who she was or where she came from. Brutality has grown commonplace. They aren't sure if they have fallen in love of their own accord, or whether they've been pushed into each other's arms. But who would have pushed them, and why? "Although it’s the author’s most serious novel, it’s also his most disquieting. In the bleak world that this story presents, wit and irony, along with jazz and literary fiction, have evaporated in the heat of a second Holocaust sometime in the 21st century... Jacobson may be writing in the great tradition of dystopian literature, but he takes a clever swipe at “what these writers gloomily and even hysterically prophesied.”... [he] has something darker and older in mind than our subjection to robot over

Who reads J : A Novel?

Author

Jacobson, Howard

Publisher

Crown/Archetype

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780553419573

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Political Science

Rating

3.4 / 5 (582 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14