A tragicomic portrait of one mans unravelling in an absurd, twisted world, Howl is the propulsive new novel from BookerPrize winner Howard Jacobson.A howling comic masterpiece Patrick MarberBoils with fury and fizzes with life Jonathan FreedlandIn the aftermath of October 7, Ferdinand Draxler walks the streets of London in despair. Everything has changed the sights, the sound, the spirit. He too is not who he was. Is he at the crossroads of history or is it just a bend in the culdesac of his own gloomy nature?The son of a Holocaust survivor who accuses him of cowardice and the father of a daughter who sees him as complicit in genocide, Draxler fixates on bad news. He shouts at the television. He carries his own tin of paint to cover up graffiti. The staffroom at the primary school of which he is headmaster has become a battlefield of inflamed opinion he does nothing to quiet.His wife Charmian is a beacon of calm but even she isnt sure she can save Ferdie from himself. Dont worry about me, he tells her. I dont have what it takes to go mad.He just gets better and better Giles Coren

Binding: Hardcover;288 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: FA; Weight: 530 g; Dimensions: 145 x 223 x 30

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