J Gabriel Krauze while retaining the constant tension

while retaining the constant tension of violent death

It's a palace of art-deco delights and debauchery

Their fates will collide on the night of the Mad Women's Ball

dying in front of his eyes and making him a laughing stock

after 22 years

J Gabriel Krauze while retaining the constant tensionShortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize Shortlisted for the 2014 Goldsmiths Prize 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. Howard Jacobson, one of Britains greatest novelists and winner of the 2010 Man Booker prize, has written a novel which 'may well come to be seen as the dystopian British novel of its times'. (John