J. M Coetzee
1) Disgrace
Author
Publisher
Vikings
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
220 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fifty-two-year-old David Lurie, having lost his job and the respect of his friends and ex-wife after an affair with one of his students, retreats to his daughter's isolated small holding in South Africa where he attempts to relate to her and a society with new racial complexities.
Author
Series
Childhood of Jesus volume 2
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the Nobel Prize-winning author J.M. Coetzee, the haunting sequel to The Childhood of Jesus, continuing the journey of David, Simon, and Ines. "When you travel across the ocean on a boat, all your memories are washed away and you start a completely new life. That is how it is. There is no before. There is no history. The boat docks at the harbour and we climb down the gangplank and we are plunged into the here and now. Time begins." David is the...
Author
Series
Childhood of Jesus volume 1
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
277 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A major new novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Waiting for the Barbarians, The Life & Times of Michael K and Disgrace Nobel laureate and two-time Booker Prize winner J.M. Coetzee returns with a haunting and surprising novel about childhood and destiny that is sure to rank with his classic novels. Separated from his mother as a passenger on a boat bound for a new land, David is a boy who is quite literally adrift. The piece of paper explaining...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
167 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Exacting yet unpredictable, pithy yet complex, Coetzee's The Pole tells the story of Wittold Walccyzkiecz, a vigorous, extravagantly white-haired pianist and interpreter of Chopin who becomes infatuated with Beatriz, a stylish patron of the arts, after she helps organize his concert in Barcelona. Although Beatriz, a married woman, is initially unimpressed by Wittold and his "gleaming dentures," she soon finds herself pursued and ineluctably swept...
5) Slow man
Author
Publisher
Secker & Warburg
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
240 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When photographer Paul Rayment loses his leg in an accident, he refuses to let the injury ruin his life, and finds himself falling in love with his Croatian nurse, who challenges him to take a more active role in his own life.
6) Age of Iron
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1990
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
198 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mrs. Curren, a dying professor in Cape Town, South Africa has been insulated from the brutality of apartheid but now is forced to come to terms with the iron-hearted rage that the system has wrought.
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Magistrate of an isolated frontier settlement on the border of an unnamed empire looks forward to an easy retirement until the arrival of Colonel Joll, whose task it is to report on the activities of the "barbarians" and the security situation on the border. Joll conducts a series of ruthless interrogations, which leads the Magistrate to question his loyalty to the empire.
8) Disgrace
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Professor David Lurie is a man whose world is shattered when he is fired for seducing a college student. He finds peace at his estranged daughter's modest farm in South Africa until a horrific incident of terror and violence forces Lurie to confront his beliefs and the disturbing racial complexities of the new South Africa.