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The Childhood of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
The child is silent. For a while he too is silent. Then he speaks. 'Please believe me—please take it on faith—this is not a simple matter. The boy is without mother. What that means I cannot explain to you because I cannot explain it to myself. Yet I promise you, if you will simply say Yes, without fore ...Show more
The Death of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
The luminous new novel from 'one of the best writers of our time', twice winner of the Booker Prize'The Death of Jesus is full of truth' -- David Sexton, Book of the Week, Evening StandardIn The Childhood of Jesus, Simòn found a boy, David, and they began life in a new land, together with a woman named ...Show more
The Death of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: #3 | Reading Level: Adult
After The Childhood of Jesus and The Schooldays of Jesus, J. M. Coetzee completes his trilogy with a new masterwork, The Death of Jesus. David has grown to be a tall ten-year-old. He is a natural at soccer, and loves kicking a ball around with his friends. His father Sim n and Bolivar the dog usually wa ...Show more
The Master of Petersburg by J.M. Coetzee
$23.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction
In 1869, an exiled Russian novelist returns to St Petersburg to collect the effects of his dead stepson, Pavel. But the stepson's incriminating papers have been found by the Tsarist police and the novelist finds himself drawn into an underworld of suspicion, revolution and danger.
The Pole and Other Stories by J. M. Coetzee
$34.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee reaffirms his place as one of the English language's most acclaimed authors with this fascinating examination of life, death and animals. These six stories by Nobel-Prize-winning J. M. Coetzee remind us that he is a writer whose language explores moral and emotional quandar ...Show more
The Schooldays of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee
$23.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
The Schooldays of Jesus, is the startling sequel to J. M. Coetzee's widely praised The Childhood of Jesus David is the small boy who is always asking questions. Sim n and InUs take care of him in their new country. He is learning the language; he has begun to make friends. He has the big dog BolYvar to ...Show more
Waiting For the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee
$23.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: good
For decades the Magistrate has run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement, ignoring the impending war between the barbarians and the Empire. When the interrogation experts arrive he is jolted into sympathy with the victims and an act of rebellion which lands him in prison.
Waiting for the Barbarians by J. M. Coetzee
$23.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction
"For decades the Magistrate has run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement, ignoring the impending war between the barbarians and the Empire, whose servant he is. But when the interrogation experts arrive, he is jolted into sympathy with the victims and into a quixotic act of rebellion which lands hi ...Show more
Waiting for the Barbarians by J.m. Coetzee
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
How do you eradicate contempt, especially when that contempt is founded on noting more substantial than differences in table manners, variations in the structure of the eyelid? Shall I tell you what I sometimes wish? I wish that these barbarians would rise up and teach us a lesson, so that we would lear ...Show more