- South African Authors, Biography, Dorf, Belletristische Darstellung
In these fictionalised memoirs using third-person narration, Coetzee examines his childhood within the sphere of his parents' unhappy marriage, his desire for his mother and for independence from her, and his feelings towards a multi-racial South African society.
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- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- J. M. Coetzee
- First published
- 1997
- Pages
- 186
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Secker & Warburg, Mondadori (IT)
- Editions
- 27
- Language
- Spanish, German, Swedish, English
- ISBN
- 9788497930710
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“THEY LIVE ON A HOUSING ESTATE outside the town of Worcester, between the railway line and the National Road.”
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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