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017339
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London, Vintage, 2014.
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329pPale brown spine
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David is a small boy who has come by boat across the ocean to a new country. He has been separated from his parents, and has lost the piece of paper that would have explained everything. On the boat a Man named Simon has taken it upon himself to look after the boy. On arrival they have been assigned new names, new birthdays. They know nothing about the customs of their new country. They know little Spanish, the language spoken there. They are people without a past. Simon wants to find the boy's mother. He feels sure he will know her when he sees her. 'But after we find her' David asks, 'what are we hear for?'.
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9780099581550 Pb.
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017342
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London, Vintage, 2007.
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231pBlack spine
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"Señor C," an aging author, has been asked by his German publisher to write his thoughts on the state of the world. These thoughts address a wide range of subjects and include a scathing indictment of Bush, Cheney and Blair, as well as a witheringly honest examination of everything from Machiavelli to intelligent design. Meanwhile, the writer hires a young woman to type his manuscript. The relationship that develops has a profound effect on both of them.
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9780099516224 Pb.
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017341
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London, Vintage, 2000.
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219pBlack spine
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A white woman is gang-raped by blacks in this novel on post-apartheid South Africa. But she understands such settling of scores is inevitable, given what whites did to blacks, and she keeps the baby.
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9780099284826 Pb.
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| I01117 | 823/COE | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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017348
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London, Vintage, 2004.
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184pBlack spine
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In a South Africa torn by civil war, Michael K sets out to take his mother back to her rural home. On the way there she dies, leaving him alone in an anarchic world of brutal roving armies. Imprisoned, Michael is unable to bear confinement and escapes, determined to live with dignity. Life & Times of Michael K goes to the centre of human existence - the need for an interior, spiritual life and for purity of vision.
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9780099479154 Pb.
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014316
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London, Vintage, 2005.
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263pWhite spine
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When photographer Paul Rayment loses his leg in a bicycle accident, his solitary life is irrevocably changed. Stubbornly refusing a prosthesis, Paul returns to his bachelor's apartment in Adelaide, uncomfortable with his new dependency on others. He is given to bouts of hopelessness as he looks back on his sixty years of life, but his spirits rise when he finds himself falling in love with Marijana, his practical, down-to-earth Croatian nurse who is struggling to raise her family in a foreign land. As Paul contemplates how to win her heart, he is visited by the mysterious writer Elizabeth Costello, who challenges Paul to take an active role in his own life." "In this new book, J. M. Coetzee offers a meditation on what makes us human, on what it means to grow older and reflect on how we have lived our lives. Slow Man is a novel that asks questions but rarely provides answers; it is a portrait of a man in search of truth. Paul Rayment's accident changes his perspective on life, and as a result he begins to address the kinds of universal concerns that define us all: What does it mean to do good? What in our lives is ultimately meaningful? Is it more important to be loved or to be cared for? How do we define the place we call "home"?"
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9780099490623 Pb.
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017347
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London, Vintage, 2009.
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266pLight blue spine
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A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. He plans to focus on the years from 197 to1977 when Coetzee, in his thirties, is sharing a run-down cottage in the suburbs of Cape Town with his widowed father. This, the biographer senses, is the period when he was 'finding his feet as a writer'. Never having met Coetzee, he embarks on a series of interviews with people who were important to him ; a married woman with whom he had an affair, his favourite cousin Margot, a Brazilian dancer whose daughter had English lessons with him, former friends and colleagues. From their testimony emerges a portrait of the young Coetzee as an awkward, bookish individual with little talent for opening himself to others. Within the family he is regarded as an outsider, someone who tried to flee the tribe and has now returned, chastened. His insistence on doing manual work, his long hair and beard, rumours that he writes poetry evoke nothing but suspicion in the South African.
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9780099540540 Pb.
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| I01124 | 823/COE | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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020497
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London, Vintage Books, 2004.
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170pBrown spine
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For decades the Magistrate has run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement, ignoring the impending war between the barbarians and his Empire. But when the interrogation experts arrive, he is jolted into sympathy with the victims and an act of rebellion which sees him imprisoned as an enemy of the state.
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9780099465935 Pb.
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| I01763 | 823/COE | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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