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 school authorities insist he be sent to a special...

Slow Man von Coetzee, J. M.

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...

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...

Diary of a Bad Year von Coetzee, J. M.

»Für einen Mann seines Alters, zweiundfünfzig, geschieden, hat er seiner Ansicht nach das Sexproblem recht gut im Griff.« Aber als der Literaturprofessor David Lurie aus Kapstadt eine Affäire mit einer Studentin anfängt, gerät sein...

Skeptisch und scharfsichtig sucht J. M. Coetzee in seinen Büchern nach einem Bild von der Welt, das nichts verkürzt oder beschönigt. Stilistisch meisterhaft und moralisch unbestechlich legt er das Nervenzentrum der Wirklichkeit bloß und...

A first volume of memoirs from one of South Africa's foremost men of letters, which evokes the tensions, delights and terrors of childhood with haunting immediacy. von Coetzee, J. M.

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...

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...

Paperback edition of the allegorical novel from the twice Booker Prize winner and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. A man and boy, strangers to each other, cross oceans and arrive in a strange land. Can they find a suitable woman...

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...