J: A Novel

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  • A
  • thought-provoking
  • prescient
  • novel
  • from
  • the
  • Booker-prize
  • winning
  • author
  • of
  • The
  • Finkler
  • Question.‘Remarkable…May
  • well
  • come
  • to
  • be
  • seen
  • as
  • the
  • dystopian
  • British
  • novel
  • of
  • its
  • times’
  • GuardianTwo
  • people
  • fall
  • in
  • love,
  • not
  • yet
  • knowing
  • where
  • they
  • have
  • come
  • from
  • or
  • where
  • they
  • are
  • going.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?Hanging
  • over
  • their
  • lives
  • is
  • a
  • momentous
  • catastrophe
  • a
  • past
  • event
  • shrouded
  • in
  • suspicion,
  • denial
  • and
  • apology,
  • now
  • referred
  • to
  • as
  • What
  • Happened,
  • If
  • It
  • Happened.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.Shortlisted
  • for
  • the
  • 2014
  • Man
  • Booker
  • Prize,
  • the
  • 2014
  • Goldsmiths
  • Prize
  • and
  • Longlisted
  • for
  • the
  • JQ
  • Wingate
  • Literary Prize.
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