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In the Heart of the Country by J.M. Coetzee
Category: Fiction
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 executes a bloody revenge. From the author of DUSKLANDS and WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS.
In the Heart of the Country by J. M. Coetzee; Adam Rivett (Introduction by)
Category: Fiction
Today my father brought home his new bride. Magda lives on an isolated farm in South Africa with her callous father and their staff, who treat her with disdain. Her psychological state, already precarious, disintegrates when her father takes a black mistress, and a tenuous feudal peace is shattered. In ...Show more
Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000 - 2005 by J. M. Coetzee
Category: Languages and Reference
Inner Workings is the second of three collections of literary criticism by J. M. Coetzee, including essays on Musil and Beckett, Bellow and Gordimer. These are concise, accessible introductions to some of the world's greatest writers, by a contemporary master.
J. M. Coetzee - Photographs from Boyhood by J. M (John) Coetzee
Category: Photography
Author J.M. Coetzee sold his house in Cape Town, unaware that he was leaving behind unique documents from his teenage years. In the attic of his former home, the new owners discovered a forgotten brown suitcase and a large cardboard box, containing a complete photographic archive of old prints and negat ...Show more
Late Essays: 2006-2017 by J. M. Coetzee
Category: Languages and Reference
Late Essays is the last of three collections of literary criticism by J. M. Coetzee to be republished by Text. It includes essays on Flaubert and Goethe, Patrick White and Gerald Murnane. These are concise, accessible introductions to some of the world's greatest writers, by a contemporary master.
Late Essays - 2006-2017 by J. M. Coetzee
Category: Reference
A new collection of twenty-three literary essays from the Nobel Prize-winning author. J. M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. J. M. Coetzee is not only one of the most acclaimed fiction writers in the world, he is also an accomplished and insightful literary ...Show more
Late Essays: 2006-2017 by J. M. Coetzee
Category: Languages and Reference
Crossing J.M. Coetzee's range of well-known writerly interests, including Beckett, with essays on Australian writers including Gerald Murnane, Patrick White and Les Murray. The subjects covered range from Daniel Defoe in the early eighteenth century to Coetzee's contemporary Philip Roth. Coetzee has had ...Show more
Life and Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee
Category: Fiction
There was a cord of tenderness that stretched from him to the patch of earth beside that dam and must be cut. It seemed to him that one could cut a cord like that only so many times before it would not grow again. Michael K is returning his elderly mother to her rural birthplace when she dies, leaving ...Show more