- Fiction, postcolonial, Fiction, general, South africa, fiction
On a remote farm in South Africa, the protagonist of J. M. Coetzee's fierce and passionate novel watches the life from which she has been excluded. Ignored by her callous father, scorned and feared by his servants, she is a bitterly intelligent woman whose outward meekness disguises a desperate resolve to not become "one of the forgotten ones of history."
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Grave, contemplative, prestige and intimate.
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- J. M. Coetzee
- First published
- 1977
- Pages
- 176
- Publisher
- Text Publishing Company, [Distributor], Công ty văn hóa và truysen thông Nhã Nam, Isis Audio Bks
- Editions
- 18
- Language
- vie, Russian, English, German
- ISBN
- 9780436256707
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“1. Today my father brought home his new bride.”
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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