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J
General FictionJ
(uk) Howard Jacobson
In the future, after experiencing a Holocaust-like disaster, personal, family, and historical memories have been wiped away, and people only refer to that nightmare with the vague and ambiguous "something happened--if something happened at all." When I was a kid, my father and Kevin played a game: whenever you say a word starting with J, you have to press your lips with two fingers. Kevin and Eileen, both descendants of Holocaust survivors, fell in love. However, the successive murders in the village dragged Kevin into the sight of the monitors. What is the truth of history? Is it possible to avoid the suffering that has occurred in the future? In "J", Jacobson reaches out to the darkest and most secret aspects of human beings.
In the future, after experiencing a Holocaust-like disaster, personal, family, and historical memories have been wiped away, and people only refer to that nightmare with the vague and ambiguous "something happened--if something happened at all." When I was a kid, my father and Kevin played a game: whenever you say a word starting with J, you have to press your lips with two fingers. Kevin and Eileen, both descendants of Holocaust survivors, fell in love. However, the successive murders in the village dragged Kevin into the sight of the monitors. What is the truth of history? Is it possible to avoid the suffering that has occurred in the future? In "J", Jacobson reaches out to the darkest and most secret aspects of human beings.