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Contemplative, contemporary, prestige and grave.
- contemplativerelentless
- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
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- Author
- J. M. Coetzee
- First published
- 2004
- Pages
- 265
- Publisher
- Random House Australia, Penguin Random House, Penguin (Non-Classics)
- Editions
- 24
- Language
- Spanish, English, French, Chinese
- ISBN
- 9788439713937
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“THE BLOW CATCHES him from the right, sharp and surprising and painful, like a bolt of electricity, lifting him up off the bicycle.”
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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