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J. M. Coetzee
Three Stories - ‘His Man and He’ (written as Coetzee’s acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize for Literature), ‘A House in Spain’ and ‘Nietverloren’ - is the work of a…
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J M Coetzee
In Cape Town, South Africa, an elderly classics professor writes a letter to her distant daughter, recounting the strange and disturbing events of her dying days. She has been opposed…
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In the early eighteenth century, Susan Barton finds herself adrift from a mutinous ship and cast ashore on a remote desert island. There she finds shelter with its only other…
The great Russian novelist Dostoevsky, obsessed with discovering whether his stepson’s sudden death was murder or suicide, finds himself drawn into the violent revolutionary subculture of 1869 Russia, in a…
A novel set in colonial South Africa, where a lonely sheepfarmer makes a bid for private salvation in the arms of a black concubine, while his daughter dreams of and…
In a South Africa torn by civil war, Michael K sets out to take his mother back to her rural home. On the way there she dies, leaving him alone…
Youth’s narrator, a student in 1950s South Africa, has long been plotting an escape from his native country. Studying mathematics, reading poetry, saving money, he tries to ensure that when…
This work contains two novellas. In the first, a specialist in psychological warfare is driven to murderous action by the stresses of a macabre project to win the Vietnam War…
Coetzee - soon to be a major film starring Mark Rylance, Robert Pattinson and Johnny Depp For decades the Magistrate has run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement, ignoring…
In spectacularly powerful and lucid prose, Coetzee uses all his formidable skills to engage with a post-apartheid culture in unexpected and revealing ways. This examination into the sexual and politcal…
Revisiting the South Africa of half a century ago, the novelist J.M. Coetzee brings a writer’s diagnostic skills to bear on his own past. With a father he could not…
