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Disgrace by J M Coetzee : Darkness in new South Africa

December 11, 2019July 1, 2021 BookerTalk 23 Comments African authors, j m coetzee, Man Booker Prize, South african literature

If ever proof was needed that it’s possible to have a thoroughly distasteful and objectionable protagonist and yet be totally

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Life and Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee [Booker Prize 1983]

August 10, 2017July 1, 2021 BookerTalk 26 Comments African authors, Booker prize, j m coetzee

A Booker prize winning novel about a simple man’s resistance t o oppression in South Africa.

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Man Booker 2016:my wishlist

September 8, 2016September 8, 2016 BookerTalk 14 Comments A.L. Kennedy, David Means, David Szalay, Deborah Levy, Elizabeth Strout, Graeme Macrae Burnet, Ian McGuire, j m coetzee, Madeleine Thien, Ottessa Moshfegh, Paul Beatty, Virginia Reeves, Wyl Menmuir

There was no way I could read all 13 of the long listed titles for this year’s Man Booker Prize in

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#20books of summer German authors

Reading Snapshot September 2016

September 1, 2016August 31, 2017 BookerTalk 30 Comments j m coetzee, Man Booker Prize 2016, Sybille Bedford, Virago Modern Classics, Wyl Menmuir

Whats on my reading horizons for September 2016

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#20books of summer

Snapshot August 2016

August 1, 2016August 1, 2016 BookerTalk 10 Comments Ann Patchett, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, j m coetzee, Jack Grimwood, Maryse Conde, Sheri Fink

July came and went in a blink of the eye. August will likely go just as quickly and then

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