- Dystopias, Future life, Fiction, Fiction, general
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.
Log it
Sign in to log this.
Character
Contemporary, grave, prestige and open-ended.
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- resolvedopen-ended
- warmbleak
Who loves it, who doesn't
No profiled raters yet.
Ask the title
A yes-or-no question, answered from what people wrote here, on TMDB and on Wikipedia. Never made up.
Reviews
No reviews yet.
About the book
- Author
- Howard Jacobson
- First published
- 2014
- Pages
- 336
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape, Vintage Digital
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780224101974
Where to read
Libraries first: a card gets you most books for nothing. Each opens that service’s page for this title.
On Open Library, 2 want to.
Howard Jacobson was born in Manchester, England, and educated at Cambridge. His many novels include The Mighty Walzer (winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize), Who’s Sorry Now? and Kalooki Nights (both longlisted for the Man Booker Prize), and, most recently, The Act of Love. Jacobson is also a respected critic and broadcaster, and writes a weekly column for the Independent. He lives in London. [Source][1] [1]: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/171414.Howard_Jacobson
Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Tastebuds Other media included when they land close.
Gold Fame Citrus 201582% alikeBoth contemporary, grave, prestige.
Red Clocks 201882% alikeBoth contemporary, grave, prestige.
Beyond the rift 201381% alikeBoth contemporary.
The Memoirs of a Survivor 197479% alikeBoth grave, contemporary, prestige.
The Committed 202178% alikeBoth contemporary, grave.
Foreign Gods Inc 201377% alikeBoth contemporary, grave.
The Handmaid's Tale 198577% alikeBoth grave, contemporary, prestige.
Exit West 201777% alikeBoth contemporary, grave, prestige.
Affliction 199877% alikeFilm · Both contemporary.
A Scanner Darkly 200675% alikeFilm · Both grave, contemporary.