Author: J. M. Coetzee
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: novel, country, heart
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 1982-10-28
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0140062289
ISBN-13: 9780140062281

A novel set in colonial South Africa, where a lonely sheepfarmer makes a bid for private salvation in the arms of a black concubine, while his daughter dreams of and executes a bloody revenge. From the author of DUSKLANDS and WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS.

Author: J. M. Coetzee
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: century, books, penguin, barbarians, waiting
Number of Pages: 152
Published: 1999-10-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0140283358
ISBN-13: 9780140283358

These deluxe editions are packaged with French flaps, acid-free paper, and rough front. "A real literary event."--The New York Times Book Review"A story of profound beauty, clarity and eloquence, which even at its most melodramatic holds to a biblical nobility."--Chicago Tribune Book WorldOther Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century:The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia MarquezThe Adventures of Augie March by Saul BellowThe Age of Innocence by Edith WhartonA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James JoyceSwann

Author: J. M. Coetzee
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: essays, literary, shores, stranger
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2002-08-27
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0142001376
ISBN-13: 9780142001370

Two-time Booker Prize-winner J. M. Coetzee is one of the world’s greatest novelists. This thought-provoking collection gathers twenty-six of his essays on books and writing. In his opening piece, "What Is a Classic?", Coetzee asks, "What does it mean in living terms to say that the classic is what survives?" He explores the answer by way of T. S. Eliot, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Zbigniew Herbert. Coetzee goes on to discuss eighteenth- and nineteenth-century authors such as Defoe and Turgenev, the German modernists such as Rilke, Kafka, and Musil, and the giants of late-twentieth-century

Author: J. M. Coetzee
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: year, diary
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2008-10-28
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0143114484
ISBN-13: 9780143114482

An ingenious new work of fiction from the Nobel Prize– winning author of Disgrace J . M. Coetzee once again breaks literary ground with Diary of a Bad Year, a book that is, in the words of its protagonist, “a response to the present in which I find myself.” Aging author Senor C has been commissioned to write a series of essays entitled “Strong Opinions,” of which he has many. After hiring a beautiful young typist named Anya, the two embark on a relationship that will have a profound impact on them both— especially when Alan, Anya’s no-good boyfriend, develops designs on Senor C�

Author: J. M. Coetzee
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: novel, disgrace
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2008-08-27
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0143115286
ISBN-13: 9780143115281

Coming in 2009, the major motion picture starring John Malkovich Written with austere clarity , Disgrace explores the downfall of one man and dramatizes with unforgettable, almost unbearable vividness the plight of South Africa-a country caught in the chaotic aftermath of the overthrow of Apartheid.

Author: J. M. Coetzee
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: life, provincial, scenes, youth
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2003-10-07
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0142002003
ISBN-13: 9780142002001

The second installment of J. M. Coetzee’s fictionalized "memoir" explores a young man’s struggle to experience life to its full intensity and transform it into art. The narrator of Youth has long been plotting an escape-from the stifling love of his overbearing mother, a father whose failures haunt him, and what he is sure is impending revolution in his native country of South Africa. Arriving at last in London in the 1960s, however, he finds neither poetry nor romance and instead begins a dark pilgrimage into adulthood. Youth is a remarkable portrait of a consciousness, isolated a

Author: J. M. Coetzee
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords:
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1998-09-01
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0140275657
ISBN-13: 9780140275650

In Cape Town, South Africa, an old woman is dying of cancer. A classics professor, Mrs. Curren has been opposed to the lies and brutality of apartheid all her life, but has lived insulated from its true horrors. Now she is suddenly forced to come to terms with the iron-hearted rage that the system has wrought. In an extended letter addressed to her daughter, who has long since fled to America, Mrs. Curren recounts the strange events of her dying days. She witnesses the burning of a nearby black township and discovers the bullet-riddled body of her servant’s son. A teenage black activist