J: A Novel

<p><b>A thought-provoking prescient novel from the Booker-prize winning author of <i>The Finkler Question.</i></b><br><b><br>‘Remarkable…May well come to be seen as the dystopian British novel of its times’ <i>Guardian</i></b><br><br>Two people fall in love, not yet knowing where they have come from or where they are going. <br><br> 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? <br><br> 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.<br><br> Set in the future – a world where the past is a dangerous country, not to be talked about or visited – <i>J</i> is a love story of incomparable strangeness, both tender and terrifying.<br><br> <b>Shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize, the 2014 Goldsmiths Prize and Longlisted for the JQ Wingate Literary Prize.</b></p> <p><b>A thought-provoking prescient novel from the Booker-prize winning author of <i>The Finkler Question.</i></b><br><b><br>‘Remarkable…May well come to be seen as the dystopian British novel of its times’ <i>Guardian</i></b><br><br>Two people fall in love, not yet knowing where they have come from or where they are going. <br><br> 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? <br><br> 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.<br><br> Set in the future – a world where the past is a dangerous country, not to be talked about or visited – <i>J</i> is a love story of incomparable strangeness, both tender and terrifying.<br><br> <b>Shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize, the 2014 Goldsmiths Prize and Longlisted for the JQ Wingate Literary Prize.</b></p>