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Latest novel from the Nobel laureate, now in paperback. 'Coetzee is a unique voice, no novelist explores ideas and the power of literature and the sense of displacement so boldly. "Slow Man" will add to his immense reputation' "Independent on Sunday".

Un novelista ruso exiliado regresa a San Petersburgo para conocer las circunstancias que rodean la muertede su hijastro Pavel.Un novelista ruso exiliado regresa a San Petersburgo para conocer las circunstancias que rodean la muerte de su hijastro Pavel. Obsesivamente asediado por el recuerdo, se ve inmerso en la violencia revolucionaria de 1869. J. M. Coetzee, premio Nobel de Literatura 2003, recrea la figura de Fiódor Dostoievski, el gran nov...

Un día el Imperio decidió que los bárbaros eran una amenaza a su integridad. Un día el Imperio decidió que los bárbaros eran una amenaza a su integridad. Primero llegaron al pueblo fronterizo policías, que detuvieron sobre todo a quienes no eran bárbaros pero sí diferentes. Torturaron y asesinaron. Después llegaron los militares. Muchos. Preparados para realizar heroicas campañas militares. El viejo magistrado del lugar trató de hacerles ver c...

A calamitous cycling accident results in the amputation of Paul Rayment's leg. His feelings for his nurse, 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.

Een jonge biograaf die schrijft over de overleden John Coetzee, interviewt mensen die belangrijk zijn geweest voor de auteur - een getrouwde minnares, lievelingsnicht Margot, een Braziliaanse danseres, vroegere vrienden en collega's. Een soms hartverscheurende, soms uiterst geestige roman.

New novel in paperback from Coetzee, the only author ever to have won the Booker Prize twice. Set against the backdrop of the 1960s, this is an evocative portrait of a consciousness turning in on itself, and of a young man's struggle to find his way in the world. "Only a writer as great as Coetzee is capable of infusing meditation on the spoilt hope of youth with such clarity, fluency and poise" "Daily Mail". "Brilliant. A remarkable feat" "Su...

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Per anni, il magistrato si è concentrato su poche, piccole cose quotidiane: l'amministrazione giudiziaria della sua cittadina di frontiera durante il giorno, la lettura dei classici la sera, gli scavi archeologici nel tempo libero. Per anni, ha applicato la legge senza mettere in forse la propria fedeltà all'Impero, senza consentire ad alcun dubbio di turbare le sue serate con gli amici, le sue notti con le prostitute. Per anni. Finché i barba...

Un ragazzino cerca una via di fuga da un padre ordinario, da una madre troppo amata, dai turbamenti di un'infanzia già guasta. Dieci anni dopo, quel ragazzino è un giudizioso studente universitario di matematica che coltiva un'ambizione segreta: vivere un'esistenza consacrata alla scrittura, lontano dall'inferno del Sudafrica e dalla vergogna di essere bianco. Giunto in Inghilterra, deve però scendere a patti con la realtà. L'Europa degli anni...

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What's on the minds of African writers? The South African Chapter of PEN International asked the question, and this volume of collected works holds the answer. More than 800 pieces of new writing from across the continent flowed in once the call for entries was made for the PEN/Studzinski Literary Award. This collection contains the 34 short stories eventually selected, including the prize-winners and those receiving honourable mentions fro...

J. M. Coetzee was born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1940. The author of some fifteen novels and winner of numerous awards, Coetzee is the first author to have been awarded the Booker Prize twice: for Life & Times of Michael K in 1983 and for Disgrace in 1999. In 2003 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He lives in Australia.

An innovative and inspired work of fiction, this book by the Nobel Prize-winning author of "Disgrace" allows one of the most revered writers of our time to imagine his own life with a critical and unsparing eye. A Man Booker Prize finalist.

New work of fiction from one of our greatest living novelists. Coetzee won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2003 and has twice won the Booker Prize. Explores the life of an Australian writer of international renown. "One of Coetzee's best... simply burns with creative passion" D.J. Taylor, "Independent

Set in an isolated outpost on the edge of a great Empire, WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS is a startling allegory of the war between oppressor and oppressed. The Magistrate, the novel's fascinating narrator, has been a loyal servant of the Empire, running the affairs of the frontier settlement, dabbling in antiquarianism, and ignoring constant reports of a threat from the "barbarians" who inhabit the uncharted deserts beyond the village. But when m...

The acceptance speech delivered by the winner of the 2003 Noble Prize for Literature, and the enigmatic short story "He and His Man" which Coetzee recited during his speech, are brought together in this volume.

From author of Waiting for the Barbarians and Nobel Prize winner J.M. Coetzee. J.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018. In a South Africa turned by war, Michael K. sets out to take his ailing mother back to her rural home. On the way there she dies, leaving him alone in an anarchic world of brutal roving armies. Imprisoned, Michael is unable to be...

From the Booker Prize-winning author of "Disgrace" comes a second volume of memoir that "proves yet again that the awkward young man did indeed become a 'real artist'"--"The Wall Street Journal.