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Inner Workings - Literary Essays 2000-2005 by J M Coetzee
49.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: good
Late Essays: 2006-2017 by J. M. Coetzee
38.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Crossing J.M. Coetzee's range of well-known writerly interests, including Beckett, with essays on Australian writers including Gerald Murnane, Patrick White and Les Murray. The subjects covered range from Daniel Defoe in the early eighteenth century to Coetzee's contemporary Philip Roth. Coetzee has had ...Show more
Life and Times of Michael K. by J.M. Coetzee
26.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
First published in 1983 and winner of the Booker Prize. Set in a turbulent South Africa, a young gardener decides to take his mother away from the violence towards a new life in the abandoned countryside, but finds that war follows wherever he goes. From the author of DUSKLANDS and IN THE HEART OF THE ...Show more
Master of Petersburg by J.M. Coetzee
26.95 NZD
29.95 (10% off)
Category: Fiction
In The Master of Petersburg J. M. Coetzee dares to imagine the life of Dostoyevsky. Set in 1869, when Dostoyevsky was summoned from Germany to St Petersburg by the sudden death of his stepson, this novel is at once a compelling mystery steeped in the atmosphere of pre-revolutionary Russia and a brillian ...Show more
Stranger Shores - Essays 1986-1999 by J.M. Coetzee
29.95 NZD
32.99 (9% off)
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: good
A collection of 29 pieces on books, writing, photography, and the 1995 Rugby World Cup in South Africa. With literary subjects ranging from Defoe through Rilke and Kafka to the giants of the 20th century, those who admire Coetzee as a novelist can also read his literary criticism.
Summertime by J.M. Coetzee
49.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer John Coetzee. He plans to focus on the years 1972-1977 when Coetzee, in his thirties, is sharing a rundown cottage in the suburbs of Cape Town with his widowed father. This, the biographer senses, is the period when he was finding his ...Show more
Summertime by J.M. Coetzee
26.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
A rich, funny, and deeply affecting autobiographical novel from one of the world's greatest living writers.
The Childhood of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee
45.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
'The child is silent. For a while he too is silent. Then he speaks. 'Please believe me - please take it on faith - this is not a simple matter. The boy is without mother. What that means I cannot explain to you because I cannot explain it to myself. Yet I promise you, if you will simply say Yes, without ...Show more
The Childhood of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee
30.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
The child is silent. For a while he too is silent. Then he speaks. 'Please believe me—please take it on faith—this is not a simple matter. The boy is without mother. What that means I cannot explain to you because I cannot explain it to myself. Yet I promise you, if you will simply say Yes, without fore ...Show more
The Death of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee
37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: #3 | Reading Level: Adult
After The Childhood of Jesus and The Schooldays of Jesus, J. M. Coetzee completes his trilogy with a new masterwork, The Death of Jesus. David has grown to be a tall ten-year-old. He is a natural at soccer, and loves kicking a ball around with his friends. His father Sim n and Bolivar the dog usually wa ...Show more
The Schooldays of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee
30.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
The Schooldays of Jesus, is the startling sequel to J. M. Coetzee's widely praised The Childhood of Jesus David is the small boy who is always asking questions. Sim n and InUs take care of him in their new country. He is learning the language; he has begun to make friends. He has the big dog BolYvar to ...Show more
The Schooldays of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee
40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
David is the small boy who is always asking questions. Sim n and InUs take care of him in their new country. He is learning the language; he has begun to make friends. He has the big dog BolYvar to watch over him. But he'll be seven soon. He should be at school. And so David is enrolled in the Academy o ...Show more