Howard Jacobson has revealed that his next book will be something of a departure for him — he is setting it in the future.
But it is a future that is all too familiar, a time when, the author said, a disaster has befallen the Jews.
In a interview with Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Mr Jacobson confided that the setting would be a “dystopian” world where once again the Jews are the victims.
“My imagination is fired by tragedy,” he explained.
