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|title=J
|author=Howard Jacobson
|publisher=Jonathan Cape Ltd
|date=August 2014
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|website=http://literature.britishcouncil.org/howard-jacobson
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|summary=On the just-announced 2014 Man Booker Prize shortlist: former winner Howard Jacobson with a peculiar dystopian novel that seems to posit a second racially and theologically inspired Holocaust.
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''J'' marks an unusual turn for Howard Jacobson. Though it seems at times like a skewed folk tale, it also bears the subtle signs of a future dystopia. It has some of Jacobson's trademark elements – odd names, humorous metaphors, and Semitic references – but felt to me like a strange departure after [[The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson|The Finkler Question]] and ''Zoo Time''.