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Age of Iron Penguin Essentials by J.m. Coetzee
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics
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 to the lies and brutality of apartheid all her life, but now she finds herself coming face-to-face with its true horrors ...Show more
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene; J. M. Coetzee (Introduction by)
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY J.M. COETZEEA gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold. Greene's gripping thriller, exposes a w ...Show more
Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
$14.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
"INCLUDES A READING GUIDE After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refu ...Show more
Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
J. M. Coetzee's Booker Prize-winning novel Disgrace, set in post-apartheid South Africa, takes us into the disquieting mind of twice-divorced university teacher David Lurie as he loses his job and his honour after engaging in an ill-advised affair with a susceptible student. When he retreats to his dau ...Show more
Foe by J.M. Coetzee
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In the early eighteenth century, a woman finds herself set adrift from a mutinous ship and cast ashore on a remote desert island. There she finds shelter with its only other inhabitants: a man named Cruso and his tongueless slave Friday. In time, she builds a life for herself as Cruso's companion and, e ...Show more
Foe (Popular Penguin) by J. M. Coetzee
$12.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Nobel Laureate and two-time Booker prize-winning author of Disgrace and The Life and Times of Michael K, J. M. Coetzee reimagines Daniel DeFoe's classic novel Robinson Crusoe in Foe. Published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.In an act of breathtaking imagination, J.M Coetzee radically reinvent ...Show more
Life and Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee
$19.99 AUD
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
The Childhood of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The child is silent. For a while he too is silent. Then he speaks. 'Please believe me—please take it on faith—this is not a simple matter. The boy is without mother. What that means I cannot explain to you because I cannot explain it to myself. Yet I promise you, if you will simply say Yes, without fore ...Show more
The Death of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: #3
After The Childhood of Jesus and The Schooldays of Jesus, J. M. Coetzee completes his trilogy with a new masterwork, The Death of Jesus. David has grown to be a tall ten-year-old. He is a natural at soccer, and loves kicking a ball around with his friends. His father Sim n and Bolivar the dog usually wa ...Show more
The Pole and Other Stories by J. M. Coetzee
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee reaffirms his place as one of the English language's most acclaimed authors with this fascinating examination of life, death and animals. These six stories by Nobel-Prize-winning J. M. Coetzee remind us that he is a writer whose language explores moral and emotional quandar ...Show more
The Schooldays of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
David is the small boy who is always asking questions. Sim n and InUs take care of him in their new country. He is learning the language; he has begun to make friends. He has the big dog BolYvar to watch over him. But he'll be seven soon. He should be at school. And so David is enrolled in the Academy o ...Show more
The Schooldays of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee
$23.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The Schooldays of Jesus, is the startling sequel to J. M. Coetzee's widely praised The Childhood of Jesus David is the small boy who is always asking questions. Sim n and InUs take care of him in their new country. He is learning the language; he has begun to make friends. He has the big dog BolYvar to ...Show more
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