En vit medelålders universitetslärare i Kapstaden, David Lurie, har en affär med en av sina kvinnliga studenter. När deras förhållande avslöjas ställs David inför skolledningens krav: han skall inte bara erkänna utan även visa sin djupa ånger offent…
'A great novel by one of the finest authors writing in the English language today' The TimesAfter years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a st…
Winner of the 1999 Booker Prize. Paperback edition. After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced…
A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. He embarks on a series of interviews with people who were important to Coetzee - a married woman with whom he had an affair, his favourite cousin Margot, a Brazilia…
Revisiting the South Africa of half a century ago, the author writes about his childhood and interior life, evoking the tensions, delights and terrors of childhood with startling, haunting immediacy. 'Boyhood is a deeply-felt and utterly compelling…
Youth's narrator, a student in 1950s South Africa, has long been plotting an escape from his native country. Studying mathematics, reading poetry, saving money, he tries to ensure that when he arrives in the real world he will be prepared to experie…
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.
From the double Booker Prize-winning author of Disgrace, 'a moving story of lost childhood' (Sunday Telegraph). After crossing oceans, a man and a boy - both strangers to each other - arrive in a new land. David, the boy, has lost his mother and Sim…
An eminent Australian writer is invited to contribute to a book entitled "Strong Opinions". For him, troubled by Australia's complicity in the wars in the Middle East, it is a chance to air some urgent concerns: how should a citizen of a modern demo…
Set in 1869, when Dostoevsky was summoned from Germany to St Petersburg by the sudden death of his stepson, this novel is at once a compelling mystery steeped in the atmosphere of pre-revolutionary Russia and a brilliant and courageous meditation on…
In The Schooldays of Jesus, the small family searched for a home in which David could thrive.In The Death of Jesus, David, now a tall ten-year-old, is spotted by Julio Fabricante, the director of a local orphanage, playing football with his friends.
Coetzee's majestic trilogy of fictionalised memoir, Boyhood, Youth and SummertimeIt opens in a small town in the South Africa of the 1940s. As he interviews important figures in Coetzee's life, a portrait emerges of an awkward outsider who - even af…
Reissue in Vintage. A specialist in pyschological warefare is driven to braekdown and madness by the stressed of a project of macabre ingenuity to win the war in Vietnam. A meglomaniac Boer frontiersman wreaks hideous vengence on a Hottentot tribe f…
Jesu skoledager er en fascinerende og stilsikker ny roman fra nobelprisvinner J.M. Coetzee, og oppfølger til Jesu barndom, som kom på norsk i 2014. I Jesu skoledager fortsetter Coetzee fortellingen om den lille gutten Davíd, som sammen med Simón og…
Learning to survive in the harsh interior of Southern Africa, a former slave seeks shelter in the hollow of a baobab tree. For the first time since she was a young girl her time is her own, her body is her own, her thoughts are her own. In solitude,…
Stifled by the torpor of colonial South Africa and trapped in a web of reciprocal oppression, a lonely sheep farmer seeks comfort in the arms of a black concubine. As she dreams madly of bloody revenge, Magda's consciousness starts to drift and the…
Efter en resa över haven kommer en man och en liten pojke till ett nytt land. Här blir de tilldelade ålder och namn: Simón och David. Precis som alla andra som anländer till det nya landet har de förlorat alla sina minnen. Simón är besatt av tanken…
But his feelings for her, and for her handsome teenage son, are complicated by the sudden arrival on his doorstep of the celebrated Australian novelist Elizabeth Costello, who threatens to take over the direction of his life and the affairs of his h…
The luminous new novel from 'one of the best writers of our time', double Booker Prize winner J. M. Coetzee. 'Full of truth, tearfully moving to read... Brilliant' Evening Standard Simon and David - a tall ten-year-old - are in a new land, together…
En mann og en gutt har krysset havet og kommer til et nytt land. Her blir de tildelt et navn, alder og losji mens de lærer seg spansk. Som Simón og David navigerer de seg fram til relokaliseringssenteret i sentrum av Novilla, hvor byråkratene behand…
The Good Story is an exchange between a writer with a longstanding interest in moral psychology and a psychotherapist with a training in literary studies.
J. M. Coetzee is, without question, one of the world's greatest novelists. This volume gathers together for the first time in book form twenty-nine pieces on books, writing, photography and the 1995 Rugby World Cup in South Africa. Stranger Shores o…
Paul Auster and J. M. Coetzee are respectively responsible for some of the great contemporary works of fiction: Auster's The New York Trilogy or Coetzee's Disgrace are only two of these authors' legendary works. In Here and Now, these remarkable thi…
Author J.M.Coetzee sold his house in Cape Town, unaware that he was leaving behind unique documents from his teenage years. In the attic of his former home, the new owners discovered a forgotten brown suitcase and a large cardboard box, containing a…
En fremstående australsk forfatter blir invitert til å bidra til essaysamlingen Sterke meninger. I vaskekjelleren i huset der han bor treffer han en ung kvinne, Anya, som trenger jobb. Han tilbyr henne å skrive manuset hans inn på PC, og hun slår ti…
Michael K lämnar sitt arbete som trädgårdsmästare i Kapstaden för att ta sin svårt sjuka mor till hennes barndoms farm på landsbygden. Men modern dör på vägen och han tar sig ensam fram. Trots att området är fullt med soldater och trupptransporter l…
J.M. Coetzee's screenplay versions of In the Heart of the Country and Waiting for the Barbarians are original and as yet unproduced cinematic adaptations of his novels.
Den gode historien består av en dialog mellom nobelprisvinner JM Coetzee og psykologen Arabella Kurtz. De utforsker på hvilken måte psykoanalyse og romanskriving forholder seg til hverandre på. Begge er interessert i kraften som ligger i å fortelle…
David Lurie må forlate sin professorstilling, og drar ut på landet. Her opplever han Sør-Afrikas tilstand etter apartheid med nye relasjoner mellom hvite og svarte, og nedyssede, men ikke utraderte konflikter. Vi møter David Lurie, som foreleser på…
I Barndom går forfatteren tett innpå sin egen oppvekst i en liten by i apartheid-land, et stykke inn i landet fra Cape Town. Mor, far og to brødre bor i et nytt og meget alminnelig hus. Han er en skarp observatør, men en dårlig fortolker av det han…
Offers an epistolary dialogue between two great writers who became great friends. This book includes letters that touched on nearly every subject, from sports to fatherhood, film festivals to incest, philosophy to politics, from the financial crisis…
A collection of the author's literary essays from 2000 to 2005. It discusses writers such as Italo Svevo, Joseph Roth, Bruno Schulz, Sandor Marai who lived through the Austro-Hungarian fin de siecle and felt the influence of Schopenhauer, Nietzsche…
De to forfattere Paul Auster (USA) og J.M. Coetzee (Sydafrika) mødtes ved et litterært arrangement i Australien og har hen over tre år ført en brevveksling på tværs af kontinenter. Det er blevet til en sæ…
Den berømte forfatteren John Coetzee er død, og en ung forfatter arbeider med en biografi om Coetzee. Han intervjuer personer som har stått Coetzee nær på 70-tallet, da han bodde i Sør-Afrika, men ikke hadde slått igjennom som forfatter. Ut fra diss…
