- Philosophy, Animal rights, Animal welfare, Fiction
The idea of human cruelty to animals so consumes novelist Elizabeth Costello in her later years that she can no longer look another person in the eye: humans, especially meat-eating ones, seem to her to be conspirators in a crime of stupefying magnitude taking place on farms and in slaughterhouses, factories, and laboratories across the world.
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Contemporary, prestige, contemplative and grave.
- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- J. M. Coetzee
- First published
- 1999
- Pages
- 130
- Publisher
- Profile, Grijalbo Mondadori Sa, Princeton University Press
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9781861972583
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“HE IS WAITING at the gate when her flight comes in.”
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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