# Jerusalem

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- Book: [Jerusalem](https://www.bookquiver.com/patrick-neate/jerusalem) ([Jerusalem.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/patrick-neate/jerusalem.md))
- Authors: [Patrick Neate](https://www.bookquiver.com/patrick-neate)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4104-002-8
- Pages: 416
- Published: 2010-02-04
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

'He looks like a Brit, this guy. Full of good intentions and bad ideas.' Straddling two continents and two centuries, Patrick Neate's Jerusalem is a sweeping and hilarious epic of English misadventures abroad and at home. It features a self-serving MP lost and alone in an African dictatorship; a young, ultra-hip entrepreneur looking for something (or someone) new to exploit and an English veteran of a colonial war trying to save England from itself. With a host of other brilliant and brilliantly drawn characters, this is the funniest and most moving story of Englishness as it never was, isn't now and, hopefully, will never be.