Imprint: Penguin
Published: 04/02/2010
ISBN: 9780141040028
Length: 416 Pages
Dimensions: 1mm x 1mm x 1mm
Weight: 145g
RRP: £18.99
'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
Published: 04/02/2010
ISBN: 9780141040028
Length: 416 Pages
Dimensions: 1mm x 1mm x 1mm
Weight: 145g
RRP: £18.99
An excellent writer, a marvellous novel. A thrilling read
The most thought-provoking novel of the year. An utterly essential read
Extraordinary, ambitious, bitingly, laugh-out-loud satirical . . . quite simply, a must-read
Wildly inventive, funny and superbly original
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
A corrosive and blistering satire on colonialism and an eloquent, angry and relevant novel that speaks its own truth to power
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
Wonderful, impressive, fascinating. Neate is always an engaging and sharp writer
Witty and acerbic dialogue, an unflagging comic plot, upbeat entertainment
A very funny take on Englishness, colonialism and the search for authenticity