TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jacobson,Howard
TI  - J
SN  - 9780224101974 (hardback)
U1  - 823.914 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - London
PB  - Jonathan Cape
KW  - Science fiction
KW  - Dystopias
KW  - Man-woman relationships
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Secrecy
KW  - Future life
KW  - English fiction
KW  - 21st century
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Fantasy fiction
KW  - Adult fiction
KW  - Print
N2  - 'What country isn't a charnel house of its own history?' Two people fall in love in a world where the past is a dangerous country, not to be talked about or visited. As they discover where they came from and where they are going, a bigger, more shattering truth is revealed to them. Kevern doesn't know why his father made him put two finger across his lips whenever he began a word with a J. It wasn't then, and isn't now, the time or place for asking questions. Ailinn, too, has grown up in the dark about who she was and where she came from. On their first date Kevern kisses the bruises under her eyes. He doesn't ask who hurt her. Brutality has grown commonplace. They aren't sure whether 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? Hanging over all the lives of everyone in this novel is a momentous catastrophe - a past event shrouded in suspicion, denial and apology, now referred to as What happened, if it happened
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