Finalist for the 2014 Man Booker Prize " J is a snarling, effervescent, and ambitious philosophical work of fiction that poses unsettling questions about our sense of history, and our self-satisfied orthodoxies. Jacobson's triumph is to craft a novel that is poignant as well as troubling from the debris." -- Independent (UK) Man Booker Prize-winner Howard Jacobson's brilliant and profound new novel, J , "invites comparison with George Orwell's 1984...