After crossing oceans, a man and a boy arrive in a new land. Here they are each assigned a name and an age, and held in a camp in the desert while they learn Spanish, the language of their...
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....
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...
'Brilliant...a remarkable feat' SUNDAY TIMES'Only a writer as great as J.M. Coetzee is capable of infusing meditation on the spoilt hope of youth with such clarity, fluency and poise... The...
A collection of twenty-nine essays, from the }Booker Prize{ winning author, covering subjects such as books, writing, photography and the 1995 Rugby World Cup in South Africa
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 bol
A masterful new novel from one of the greatest writers alive. Paul Rayment is on the threshold of a comfortable old age when a calamitous cycling accident results in the amputation of a leg....
In Boyhood, J. M. Coetzee revisits the South Africa of half a century ago, to write about his childhood and interior life. Boyhood's young narrator grew up in a small country town. With a...
In 1982, J. M. Coetzee dazzled the literary world with the now classic "Waiting for the Barbarians," Five novels and two Booker prizes later, Coetzee is a writer of international stature and...
New work of fiction from one of our greatest living novelists. Coetzee is the only author to have won the Booker Prize twice. }Disgrace{ has sold over 450,000 copies in Secker and Vintage...
A man and a boy arrive in a new land. The man catches sight of a woman he is certain is the boy's mother, and persuades her to assume the role. The boy is an exceptional child, but the...
An utterly contemporary new work of fiction from one of our greatest writers and deepest thinkers, double Booker winner and Nobel Laureate. It deals with the sense of moral unease felt by...
On a remote farm in South Africa, the protagonist of J. M. Coetzee's fierce and passionate novel watches the life from which she has been excluded. Ignored by her callous father, scorned and...
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
A divorced, middle-aged English professor finds himself increasingly unable to resist affairs with his female students. When discovered by the college authorities he is expected to apologize...
"The only author ever to win the Booker Prize twice, J. M. Coetzee is one of the world's greatest novelists. Now his many admirers can have the pleasure of reading his significant body of...
An utterly contemporary and deeply thought-provoking novel which addresses the profound unease of countless people in modern democracies around the world.
An eminent, seventy-two-year-old...
Davíd is the small boy who is always asking questions. Simón and Inés take care of him in their new town Estrella. He is learning the language; he has begun to make friends. He has the big...
An intriguing and wonderful novel from the Booker and Nobel-prize-winning author of DISGRACE. Davíd is the small boy who is always asking questions. Simón and Inés take care of him in their...
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016When you travel across the ocean on a boat, all your memories are washed away and you start a completely new life. That is how it is. There is no...
Following on from Stranger Shores, which contained J.M. Coetzee's essays from 1986 to 1999, Inner Workings gathers together his literary essays from 2000 to 2005. Of the writers discussed in...
The idea of human cruelty to animals so consumes novelist Elizabeth Costello in her later years that she can no longer look another person in the eye: humans, especially meat-eating ones,...
A searing portrait of a young colonial in early 1960s London from the two-time winner of the Booker Prize. Set against the background of the 1960s - Sharpeville, the Cuban missile crisis,...
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
In 1720 the eminent man of letters Daniel Foe is approached by Susan Barton, lately a castaway on a desert island. She wants him to tell her story, and that of the enigmatic man has become...
In Cape Town, South Africa, an old woman is dying of cancer. A classics professor, Mrs. Curren has been opposed to the lies and brutality of apartheid all her life, but has lived insulated...
Hij wil een groot dichter worden met een wild liefdesleven - maar daarvoor moet hij eerst weg uit Zuid-Afrika. Eenmaal in Londen moet hij voor elke verovering van een vrouw alle moed bij...
Though the Netherlands has been the site of vigorous literary activity since at least theBeweging van Vijftig(Movement of the Fifties) poets, the status of Dutch as a "minor" language spoken...
