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Book SynopsisJ.M. Coetzee's work includes
Waiting for the Barbarians,
Life & Times of Michael K,
Boyhood,
Youth,
Disgrace,
Summertime,
The Childhood of Jesus and, most recently,
The Schooldays of Jesus. He was the first author to win the Booker Prize twice and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003.
Trade ReviewCoetzee's vision goes to the nerve center of being -- Nadine Gordimer
Its unflinching sense of loss, its claustrophobic acknowledgement of the unwilling interdependence of master and slave, and its subtle prose-style, make it an extraordinary achievement * Guardian *
His writing gives off whiffs of Conrad, of Nabokov, of Golding, of the Paul Theroux of
The Mosquito Coast. But he is none of these, he is a harsh, compelling voice * Sunday Times *
Intense, clear and powerful. The promise, so brilliantly fulfilled in his later work, is clear in this earliest novel * Daily Telegraph *
