Jerusalem - Softcover

Neate, Patrick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141040025 ISBN 13: 9780141040028

Publisher: Penguin, 2010

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Review:

An excellent writer, a marvellous novel. A thrilling read (Daily Telegraph)

The most thought-provoking novel of the year. An utterly essential read (Irvine Welsh)

Extraordinary, ambitious, bitingly, laugh-out-loud satirical . . . quite simply, a must-read (Daily Mail)

Wildly inventive, funny and superbly original (The Times)

Funny and exciting, Neate is never less than vivid, whether describing the hideous conditions of an African prison, or a run-down pub in London. Excellent (Daily Telegraph)

A corrosive and blistering satire on colonialism and an eloquent, angry and relevant novel that speaks its own truth to power (Sunday Telegraph)

A multi-layered, jam-packed and often satirical novel rich in ideas and argument. Neate's most inventive book to date . . . invites comparisons with David Mitchell's genre-busting Cloud Atlas (Guardian)

Wonderful, impressive, fascinating. Neate is always an engaging and sharp writer (Independent on Sunday)

Witty and acerbic dialogue, an unflagging comic plot, upbeat entertainment (Independent)

A very funny take on Englishness, colonialism and the search for authenticity (Financial Times)

From the Back Cover:

'Extraordinary, ambitious, bitingly, laugh-out-loud satirical . . . quite simply, a must-read' Daily Mail

'Wildly inventive, funny and superbly original' The Times

'He looks like a Brit, this guy.
Full of good intentions and bad ideas.'

Straddling two continents and three generations, Patrick Neate's Jerusalem is a sweeping and hilarious epic of English misadventure, both at home and abroad. It features a self-serving MP lost and alone in an African dictatorship; a young, ultra-hip entrepreneur looking for something (or someone) new to exploit and an English Boer War veteran determined to save England from itself. With a host of other brilliant and brilliantly drawn characters, this is the funniest and most moving story of Englishness as it never was, isn't now and, hopefully, will never be.

'Funny and exciting, Neate is never less than vivid, whether describing the hideous conditions of an African prison, or a run-down pub in London. Excellent' Daily Telegraph

'A corrosive and blistering satire on colonialism and an eloquent, angry and relevant novel that speaks its own truth to power' Sunday Telegraph

'A multi-layered, jam-packed and often satirical novel rich in ideas and argument. Neate's most inventive book to date . . . invites comparisons with David Mitchell's genre-busting Cloud Atlas' Guardian

'Wonderful, impressive, fascinating. Neate is always an engaging and sharp writer' Independent on Sunday

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0141040025
• ISBN 13: 9780141040028
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416