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J.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.

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Hugely impressive-Coetzee never puts a foot wrong * Daily Mail *
Anyone interested in the power of fiction to move us and extend our sense of life should get hold of this book * Spectator *
An intense and deep book * Guardian *
A stunning account of the relation of writers and events-A harsh and eloquent critique of the human condition. It is also a subtle, powerful, superbly written personal testament. The bleakness of vision is tempered only by the certainty that life can be material for art. This is art. The case is proven * Sunday Times *
Both a gripping mystery and a meditation on the relationship between art and life * BBC History Magazine *

The Master of Petersburg

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Vintage
      Published 2 September 2004
      ISBN-13 9780099470373
      978-0099470373
      ISBN-10 0099470373
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      J.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 Review
      Hugely impressive-Coetzee never puts a foot wrong * Daily Mail *
      Anyone interested in the power of fiction to move us and extend our sense of life should get hold of this book * Spectator *
      An intense and deep book * Guardian *
      A stunning account of the relation of writers and events-A harsh and eloquent critique of the human condition. It is also a subtle, powerful, superbly written personal testament. The bleakness of vision is tempered only by the certainty that life can be material for art. This is art. The case is proven * Sunday Times *
      Both a gripping mystery and a meditation on the relationship between art and life * BBC History Magazine *

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