- Guardian and ward, Fiction, Fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, family life
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 new country.
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- unpretentiousprestige
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- rawmeticulous
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About the book
- Author
- J. M. Coetzee
- First published
- 2013
- Pages
- 288
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Text Publishing Company, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
- Editions
- 17
- Language
- Dutch, Polish, Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9788490622360
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John Maxwell Coetzee FRSL OMG (born 9 February 1940) is a South African and Australian novelist, essayist, linguist, translator and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is one of the most critically acclaimed and decorated authors in the English language. He has won the Booker Prize (twice), the CNA Literary Award (thrice), the Jerusalem Prize, the Prix Femina étranger, and The Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and holds a number of other awards and honorary doctorates. [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._M._Coetzee)
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