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Scenes from Provincial Life
[Hardback]Author(s):J. M. CoetzeeSet in a small town in the South Africa of the 1940s, this title lets us meet a young boy who, at home, is ill at ease with his father and stifled by his mother's unconditional love. At school he passes every test that is set for him, but he remains wary of his fellow pupils, especially the rough Afrikaners. -
Disgrace Vintage 21
[Paperback]Author(s):J. M. CoetzeeDavid Lurie, a middle-aged divorcee lecturing at the Technical University of Cape Town, has an impulsive affair with a student. When the passion sours and he is denounced, he resigns and retreats to his daughter Lucy's isolated smallholding. For a time, he finds calm in the routine of farm life, but the balance of power in the country is shifting. -
Summertime
[Paperback]Author(s):J. M. CoetzeeA 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 interviews with people who were important to Coetzee - a married woman with whom he had an affair. -
Foe
[Paperback]Author(s):J. M. CoetzeeIn 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, eventually, his lover. -
Disgrace
[Paperback]Author(s):J. M. CoetzeeAfter 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, he resigns and retreats to his daughter Lucy's isolated smallholding. -
Age of Iron
[Paperback]Author(s):J. M. CoetzeeIn 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. -
Brighton Rock
[Paperback]Author(s):Graham GreeneIntroduction 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. -
Second Nature The Inner Lives of Animals
[Paperback]Author(s):Jonathan BalcombeForeword by:J. M. CoetzeeJonathan Balcombe's follow-up to his successful first book, Pleasurable Kingdom, is an eloquent and scientifically informed account, which shatters the myth that animals eat and reproduce mindlessly and shows how we humans have to learn to treat them as sentient beings capable of feelings and pain and emotions. -
Summertime
[Hardback]Author(s):J. M. CoetzeeA title that completes the trilogy of fictionalised memoir begun with "Boyhood" and "Youth". -
Disgrace
[Paperback]Author(s):J. M. CoetzeeFeatures the post-apartheid culture in South Africa. This book examines the sexual and political lawlines of modern South Africa as it tries desperately to start a fresh page in its history.
