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Jerusalem (Paperback)

by Patrick Neate (Author)
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  • Paperback: 416 pages
  • Publisher: Fig Tree (2 Jul 2009)
  • ISBN-10: 1905490410
  • ISBN-13: 978-1905490417
  • Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 13.6 x 3.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 102,870 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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In the first year of the 20th Century, a young Englishman returns home from the Boer War. Disillusioned with Empire and fearful for the soul of Albion, he sets out on a pilgrimage into the West Country, determined to identify the key elements of the English character that they may be forever preserved. In the present day, a young London entrepreneur, owner of the ‘cultural consultancy’ Authenticity™, defines his contemporaries through their consumer choices with bewildering accuracy, wallows in money and contemplates his growing sense of dissatisfaction. His father, meanwhile, a junior minister in a failing government, is sent to Africa to deal with the continent’s latest tin pot despot. He is as confident of success as he is ambitious of what that success will mean for his career. Unfailingly relevant, politically astute, moving and funny, Jerusalem is a loving portrait of Englishness as it never was, isn’t now and, hopefully, never will be.


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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.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Funny, compassionate and wise, 11 Jul 2009
By Mr. SCK Bain (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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If you liked 'Musungu Jim' and loved 'Twelve Bar Blues,' you'll adore 'Jerusalem,' the third in the trilogy. (Although it's worth pointing out that it's a trilogy in a very loose sense and you'll still be able to get 99% of what's on offer from the third book without reading the first two.)

This book is Patrick Neate's masterpiece. He masterfully mixes stories from different continents, centuries, races and cultures into a delicious literary fruitcake with something for everyone to enjoy.

What's perhaps most striking is the confidence with which Neate manages to keep everything together in this epic and wildly ambitious book. He's going for big themes - colonialism and its effects on the colonised and the colonisers; immigration; the place of black music in white society; 'African Leadership Syndrome'; England's indigenous culture (to name but a few) - and larger-than-life characters like witch doctor Musa Musa and the mysterious MC Nobody - but he never seems to lose his assured grip on his dreamscape.

Perhaps the fact that this is Neate's fifth novel is a clue to why it's so good. If so, I wait with bated breath for his 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th ...

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5.0 out of 5 stars Who is MC Nobody????, 22 Jul 2009
By Mr. E. L. R. Jack "afro samurai" (London) - See all my reviews
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Patrick Neate's Jerusalem is the final instalment that completes the wonderful series of books including Musungu Jim and the Great Chief Toloko and my favourite Twelve Bar Blues.. I've been waiting for this book for ages.. and Patrick's managed to exceed all of my expectations and deliver a book that I couldn't put down.

It's funny, smart and heartbreaking as we see all of the characters [and some new ones] intertwined in a novel that makes you understand why this took so long to come out. It makes for a perfect read - there's drama, crazy twists, sex, love, politics, culture vultures, witchcraft and murder. The words jump from the page and paints pictures in my mind.

Patrick's a great storyteller - one this country should be proud of and a force to be reckoned with. It's an epic novel that will blow your shoes off, I was left speechless after reading this and since then have devoured his first two novels again. Buy it for you mum, gran, brother and best friend - they will all enjoy it. His style flips from modern wordsmith to 19th century poet. It's a wild journey. Well worth taking.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Neat Neate, 7 Jul 2009
This book is dense and I mean that in a good way. There's such a lot in it in terms of character and plot but Neate is such a good writer that you just keep on reading.

Laugh out loud funny, insightful and educative [I'm pretty sure that's a word, of course it is.].

It's the third book of his that I've read so I am a fan anyway, if you are new to Neate or returning to him after a break (I think this book has been in the pipeline for four years) you won't be disappointed.
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