Howl

A howling comic masterpiece – Patrick MarberBold and brilliant, Howl is Howard Jacobson at his finest. A challenging novel that demands to be read and talked about – Anthony SeldonHoward 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 HertzHistorians 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 RichHoward Jacobson’s appetite for fiction is insatiable. He just gets better and better – Giles CorenIncredibly profound, beautifully written and - amazingly and essentially - funny – Tanya GoldHowl 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 SyedIn 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

Howard Jacobson has written eighteen novels and six works of non-fiction. He won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Award in 2000 for The Mighty Walzer and then again in 2013 for Zoo Time. In 2010 he won the Man Booker Prize for The Finkler Question; he was also shortlisted for the prize in 2014 for J.