Howl

Howard Jacobson’s Howl is fearless, furious and unbearably tender - a darkly comic reckoning with history, identity and what it means to stay sane when the world is coming apart. It's a rare novel that feels absolutely of this moment and is also destined to stand the test of time.

Noreena Hertz

Bold and brilliant, Howl is Howard Jacobson at his finest. A challenging novel that demands to be read and talked about

Anthony Seldon

Historians can tell you why antisemitism happens, but it takes a great novelist to tease out all the ways it makes Jews feel, about the world and about themselves. Howard Jacobson has a unique eye for the combination of pain and absurdity that this ancient hatred brings to bear on Jewish sensibilities, and an irresistible, shocking wit in its telling.

Dave Rich

A howling comic masterpiece

Patrick Marber

Howard Jacobson’s appetite for fiction is insatiable. He just gets better and better

Giles Coren

Incredibly profound, beautifully written and - amazingly and essentially - funny

Tanya Gold

Howl is funny and upsetting and profound. Howard Jacobson is the master chronicler of the Jewish experience at a time when it is needed most.

Matthew Syed

In his trademark dazzling prose, Jacobson has written what may be the first post-October 7 novel: by turns angry, rueful, provocative and wise, Howl also somehow - and against all the odds - manages to be consistently, defiantly funny. It is a book that boils with fury and fizzes with life

Jonathan Freedland

Once again Jacobson proves himself one of the great living stylists, a writer who can mine more jagged little truths from a handful of sentences than many of his peers manage in an entire book

Daily Telegraph

Both a marvellous counterblast to the narratives ranged against Jews, and more importantly still, a magnificent work of literature

Jewish Chronicle

Howl [is] certainly Jacobson’s best novel since The Finkler Question… an exceptional example of the best way for a writer to deal with darkness: that is, to blind it with the bright, white glare of laughter

The Times

Very funny… Howl is Jacobson’s definitive panic attack, and as fine a novel as I have read

Oldie, *Novel of the Month*

Howl set me off reading instantly, gratefully, excitedly, elatedly, non-stop, in awe of its stealing-up-on-you steely wit, its wild ingenuity, its no-stone-unturned command, its devious turnings-out and turnings-up. Yet another bombshell novel - no one writing in English can match Howard Jacobson. He goes where daredevils fear to tread

Cynthia Ozick

Unapologetic, fearless, a roar as much as a howl, this is Jacobson’s darkest, angriest and most important work to date

Financial Times

A book for our terrible, crazy times… [Howl] is one of Jacobson’s very best

Jewish Chronicle

Jacobson is a brilliant writer whose prose has the technical perfection of a medal-winning ice-dancing routine. The world will be no less mad when you've finished Howl but at least you'll have been entertained

Spectator

Fiercely alive, furiously intelligent and defiantly funny

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