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The Death of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The luminous new novel from 'one of the best writers of our time', twice winner of the Booker Prize'The Death of Jesus is full of truth' -- David Sexton, Book of the Week, Evening StandardIn The Childhood of Jesus, Simòn found a boy, David, and they began life in a new land, together with a woman named ...Show more
The Death of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee
$29.99 AUD
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 Expedition to the Baobab Tree by Coetzee, J M(Translated by) and Stockenstrom, Wilma
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A powerful fable originally published by Faber in 1983, translated by Nobel laureate and two-time Booker prize winner J. M. Coetzee.
The Good Story: Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Psychotherapy by Arabella Kurtz and J. M. Coetzee
$24.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
A fascinating dialogue on the human inclination to make up stories between a Nobel Prize-winning writer and a psychotherapist.Arabella Kurtz and J. M. Coetzee consider psychotherapy and its wider social context from different perspectives, but at the heart of both their approaches is a concern with stor ...Show more
The Life and Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In a South Africa torn by civil war, Michael K sets out to take his mother back to her rural home. On the way there she dies, leaving him alone in an anarchic world of brutal roving armies. Imprisoned, Michael is unable to bear confinement and escapes, determined to live with dignity. Life and Times of ...Show more
The Pole and Other Stories by J. M. Coetzee
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee reaffirms his place as one of the English language's most acclaimed authors with this fascinating examination of life, death and animals. These six stories by Nobel-Prize-winning J. M. Coetzee remind us that he is a writer whose language explores moral and emotional quandar ...Show more
The Schooldays of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | 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
The Schooldays of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee
$23.99 AUD
Category: 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
Three Stories (Short Stories) by J. M. Coetzee
$19.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
As he gets older he finds himself growing more and more crabby about language, about slack usage, falling standards. Falling in love, for instance. 'We fell in love with the house', friends of his say. How can you fall in love with a house when the house cannot love you back, he wants to reply? Once you ...Show more
Waiting For the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
For decades the Magistrate has run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement, ignoring the impending war between the barbarians and the Empire. When the interrogation experts arrive he is jolted into sympathy with the victims and an act of rebellion which lands him in prison.
Waiting for the Barbarians by J.m. Coetzee
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
How do you eradicate contempt, especially when that contempt is founded on noting more substantial than differences in table manners, variations in the structure of the eyelid? Shall I tell you what I sometimes wish? I wish that these barbarians would rise up and teach us a lesson, so that we would lear ...Show more
Youth by J. M. Coetzee
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
He has escaped South Africa. Everything is going well, he has attained his first goal, he ought to be happy. In fact, as the weeks pass, he finds himself more and more miserable. In this unforgiving portrait of the artist as a young man, John flees his apartheid-riven homeland for the bleak London of t ...Show more