Boyhood

Revisiting the South Africa of the mid 20th century, the author of "In the Heart of the Country" writes about his childhood and interior life. This is the first volume of his memoirs.

Literature & Fiction

J.M.Coetzee

World Literature

Vintage

Paul Rayment is on the threshold of a comfortable old age when a calamitous cycling accident results in the amputation of a leg. Humiliated, his body truncated, his life circumscribed, he turns away from his friends. He hires a nurse named Marijana, with whom he has a European childhood in common: hers in Croatia, his in France. Tactfully and efficiently she ministers to his needs. But his feelings for her, and for her handsome teenage son, are complicated by the sudden arrival on his doorstep of the celebrated Australian novelist Elizabeth Costello, who threatens to take over the direction of his life and the affairs of his heart. Unflinching in its vision of suffering and generous in its portrayal of the spirit of care, Slow Man is a masterful work of fiction by one of the world's greatest writers.

Slow Man

Contemporary

Random House UK Ltd.

An eminent, seventy-two-year-old australian writer is invited to contribute to a book entitled strong opinions it is a chance to air some urgent concerns he writes short essays on the origins of the state, on machiavelli, on anarchism, on al qaida, on intelligent design, on music what, he asks, is the origin of the state and the nature of the relationship between citizen and state? how should the citizen of a modern democracy react to the state's willingness to set aside moral considerations and civil liberties in its war on terror, a war that includes the use of torture? he is troubled by australia's complicity with america and britain in their wars in the middle east; an obscure sense of dishonour clings to him in the laundry-room of his apartment block he encounters an alluring young woman when he discovers she is 'between jobs' he claims failing eyesight and offers her work typing up his manuscript anya has no interest in politics but the job provides a distraction, as does the writer's evident and not unwelcome attraction toward her her boyfriend, alan, an investment consultant who understands the world in harsh neo-liberal economic terms, has reservations about his trophy girlfriend spending time with this 1960s throwback taking a lively interest in his affairs, alan begins to formulate a plan

Diary of a Bad Year

Literary

Random House]

Language:Chinese.Paperback. Pub Date :2010-12-1 Pages: 219 Publisher: Random House I cannot recall a book so rich in theme and symbol and yetwith plot and character so grounded in the here-and-now Chartingone mans fall from - and. reclamation of - grace. Disgrace weavesmetaphor that is ironic. blunt. disturbing and. ultimately. timeless around two events that could not be more contemporary: sexual harassment of a co-ed by an aging professor; and an attackby native South Africans on a white farm. David Lurie is a professor of Communications at a Cape Townuniversity. His specialty is Romantic poets. in particular Byron.At age 52. twice divorced and finding gratification. if notfulfillment. in orchestrated liaisons with prostitutes. Lurie is atrivial version of the Byronic hero he studies. Despite hisprofessorship. Lurie. by his own admission. is no teacher. Heprefers the tag s...

Disgrace

Vintage Book

A rich, funny, and deeply affecting autobiographical new novel from one of the world's greatest living writers.A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. He plans to focus on a period in the seventies when, the biographer senses, Coetzee was 'finding his feet as a writer'. He embarks on a series of interviews with people who were important to Coetzee -- a married woman with whom he had an affair, his favourite cousin Margot, a Brazilian dancer whose daughter had English lessons with him, former friends and colleagues. Thus emerges a portrait of the young Coetzee as an awkward, bookish individual, regarded as an outsider within the family. His insistence on doing manual work, his long hair and beard, and rumours that he writes poetry evoke nothing but suspicion in the South Africa of the time.From the Hardcover edition.

Summertime

Vintage Books

DISGRACE (READING GUIDE EDITION)

Vintage Classics

David Lurie, a middle-aged divorcee lecturing at the Technical University of Cape Town, has an impulsive affair with a student. When the passion sours and he is denounced, he resigns and retreats to his daughter Lucy's isolated smallholding. For a time, he finds calm in the routine of farm life, but the balance of power in the country is shifting. When he and Lucy become victims of a savage and disturbing attack, all the faultlines in their relationship are revealed.

Random House The Childhood Of Jesus

The Childhood of Jesus

A modern classic by Nobel Laureate J.M. Coetzee. His latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018. For decades the Magistrate has been a loyal servant of the Empire, running the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement and ignoring the impending war with the barbarians. When interrogation experts arrive, however, he witnesses the Empire's cruel and unjust treatment of prisoners of war. Jolted into sympathy for their victims, he commits a quixotic act of rebellion that brands him an enemy of the state.J. M. Coetzee's prize-winning novel is a startling allegory of the war between opressor and opressed. The Magistrate is not simply a man living through a crisis of conscience in an obscure place in remote times; his situation is that of all men living in unbearable complicity with regimes that ignore justice and decency.
Mark Rylance (Wolf Hall, Bridge of Spies), Ciro Guerra and producer Michael Fitzgerald are teaming up to to bring J.M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians to the big screen.

Waiting for the Barbarians: A Novel

Penguin??Books

A novel in which, for decades, the Magistrate has run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement, ignoring the impending war between the barbarians and the Empire, but a quixotic act of rebellion lands him in jail, branded an enemy of the state. From the author of DUSKLANDS.

Waiting for Barbarians

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Boyhood

Slow Man

Diary of a Bad Year

Disgrace

Summertime

DISGRACE (READING GUIDE EDITION)

Disgrace

The Childhood of Jesus

Waiting for the Barbarians: A Novel

Waiting for Barbarians