Disgrace (Penguin Essential Editions) - Softcover

Coetzee, J. M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143036378 ISBN 13: 9780143036371

Verlag: Penguin Group USA, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

In a novel set in post-apartheid South Africa, a fifty-two-year-old college professor who has lost his job for sleeping with a student tries to relate to his daughter, Lucy, who works with an ambitious African farmer.

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Born in Cape Town, South Africa, on February 9, 1940, John Michael Coetzee studied first at Cape Town and later at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned a Ph.D. degree in literature. In 1972 he returned to South Africa and joined the faculty of the University of Cape Town. His works of fiction include Dusklands, Waiting for the Barbarians, which won South Africa’s highest literary honor, the Central News Agency Literary Award, and the Life and Times of Michael K., for which Coetzee was awarded his first Booker Prize in 1983. He has also published a memoir, Boyhood: Scenes From a Provincial Life, and several essays collections. He has won many other literary prizes including the Lannan Award for Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize and The Irish Times International Fiction Prize. In 1999 he again won Britain’s prestigious Booker Prize for Disgrace, becoming the first author to win the award twice in its 31-year history. In 2003, Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Penguin Group USA
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0143036378
• ISBN 13: 9780143036371
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 220
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