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J M Coetzee

(John Michael Coetzee)
South Africa   (1940 - )
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About J M Coetzee
JM Coetzee's work includes Waiting For The Barbarians, Life & Times of Michael K, Boyhood: Scenes From Provincial Life, Youth, and Disgrace which won the Booker Prize, making him the first author to have won it twice.
 
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Summertime
Summertime
(Scenes from Provincial Life, book 3)

Series
Scenes from Provincial Life
1. Boyhood (1997)
2. Youth (2002)
3. Summertime (2009)
BoyhoodYouthSummertime
 
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"A comedy of worldly disengagement trembling on the edge of tragedy, all the more hilarious for being related in Hermans' best poker-faced mariner."
A Blessing on the Moon
A Blessing on the Moon (1997)
Joseph Skibell
"A work of striking originality."
The Gabriel Club
The Gabriel Club (1998)
Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya
"An impressive debut, serious and passionate."
The Wedding
The Wedding (2001)
Imraan Coovadia
"A tender love story rendered in prose of dazzling comic wizardry."
Half a Life
Half a Life (2001)
V S Naipaul
"Naipaul is a master of English prose and the prose of Half a Life is as clean and cold as a knife."
The City of Sealions
The City of Sealions (2002)
Eva Sallis
"A rich book - a lyrical account of a girl's growth and self-discovery, and at the same time a deeply sympathetic exploration of Muslim culture."
The Man of Feeling
The Man of Feeling (2003)
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"Javier Mariás is in my opinion one of the best contemporary writers."
Crossways
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"There is a territory - fictional and psychological - that Sheila Kohler has now marked as her own. I am full of admiration."
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"A richly romantic tale of sexual awakening and betrayal."
In the Country of Men
In the Country of Men (2006)
Hisham Matar
"A poignant story of a child exposed too early to the brutalities of Libyan politics."
Inside
Inside (2006)
Kenneth J Harvey
"An extravagantly haunted imagination."
The Rowing Lesson
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Anne Landsman
"An elegy for a lost father and a beloved world on the point of disappearing. Rarely in South African writing will we encounter language of such fire and passion."
The Cellist of Sarajevo
The Cellist of Sarajevo (2008)
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"A gripping story of Sarajevo under siege."
The One That Got Away
The One That Got Away (2008)
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"Zoë Wicomb's new stories combine the coolly interrogative gaze of the outsider with an insider's intimate warmth."
The Vera Wright Trilogy
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