Winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize. Published by Bloomsbury USA, Fifth Avenue, New York. First U.S. Edition 2010. Copyright © 2010 by Howard Jacobson. Typeset by Hewer Text UK Ltd, Edinburgh. Printed in the U.S.A. by Quad/Graphics, Fairfield, Pennsylvania. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data has been applied for.