Editions

Jerusalem

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780141040028

  • Length: 416  Pages

  • Dimensions: 1mm x 1mm x 1mm

  • Weight: 145g

  • RRP: £18.99

Jerusalem

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

Straddling two continents and two centuries, Patrick Neate's Jerusalem is a sweeping and hilarious epic of English misadventures abroad and at home. 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 veteran of a colonial war trying 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.

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780141040028

  • Length: 416  Pages

  • Dimensions: 1mm x 1mm x 1mm

  • Weight: 145g

  • RRP: £18.99

Reviews

  • 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

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About the Author

Patrick Neate

Patrick Neate is the author of four previous novels: Musungu Jim and the Great Chief Tuloko, which won a Betty Trask Award, Twelve Bar Blues, which won the 2001 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award, The London Pigeon Wars, and City of Tiny Lights and Jerusalem. He lives in London.

Patrick Neate

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