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Three Stories (Short Stories) by J. M. Coetzee
$19.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction
As he gets older he finds himself growing more and more crabby about language, about slack usage, falling standards. Falling in love, for instance. 'We fell in love with the house', friends of his say. How can you fall in love with a house when the house cannot love you back, he wants to reply? Once you ...Show more
Waiting for the Barbarians by J M Coetzee
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: good
A magistrate in a country village protests the army's treatment of members of the barbarian tribes taken prisoner during a civil war and finds himself arrested as a traitor.
Waiting for the Barbarians by J. M. Coetzee
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
"For decades the Magistrate has run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement, ignoring the impending war between the barbarians and the Empire, whose servant he is. But when the interrogation experts arrive, he is jolted into sympathy with the victims and into a quixotic act of rebellion which lands hi ...Show more
Waiting for the Barbarians by J.m. Coetzee
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
How do you eradicate contempt, especially when that contempt is founded on noting more substantial than differences in table manners, variations in the structure of the eyelid? Shall I tell you what I sometimes wish? I wish that these barbarians would rise up and teach us a lesson, so that we would lear ...Show more
Youth - Scenes from Provincial Life II by J. M. Coetzee
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Scenes from Provincial Life Ser.
J.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018. The second installment of J. M. Coetzee's fictionalized "memoir" explores a young man's struggle to experience life to its full intensity and transform it into art. ...Show more