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An utterly contemporary and deeply thought-provoking novel which addresses the profound unease of countless people in modern democracies around the world.
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Prestige, contemplative, contemporary and intimate.
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- contemporarynostalgic
- intimateepic
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- J. M. Coetzee
- First published
- 2007
- Pages
- 240
- Publisher
- Thorndike Press, Text Publishing Company, Viking
- Editions
- 18
- Language
- Chinese, und, French, English
- ISBN
- 9781410407146
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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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