- Fiction, South Africans, Young men, Roman
Een jonge Zuid-Afrikaanse intellectueel gaat in de jaren '60 in Londen wonen om een groot en meeslepend dichter te worden.
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Prestige, grave, contemplative and classical in form.
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- J. M. Coetzee
- First published
- 2002
- Pages
- 173
- Publisher
- Vintage UK, Shi bao wen hua chu ban qi ye gu fen you xian gong si, Random House
- Editions
- 20
- Language
- Chinese, English, Spanish, French
- ISBN
- 9781409020066
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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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