- Mothers and sons, Families, Children, Refugees
From the Nobel Prize-winning author J. M. Coetzee, the haunting sequel to The Childhood of Jesus, continuing the journey of David, Simon, and Ines. When you travel across the ocean on a boat, all your memories are washed away and you start a completely new life.
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- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- intimateepic
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- Author
- J. M. Coetzee
- First published
- 2016
- Pages
- 272
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Penguin Random House, FISCHER, S.
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- Dutch, English, Russian
- ISBN
- 9780735222670
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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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