J. M. Coetzee vuelca todas sus dotes de narrador sobrio, mesurado y elegante en este relato lleno de fuerza, en el que evoca su infancia a comienzos de los años cincuenta.
«Un impresionante, original y hermosísimo modelo de rigor artístico y moral.» Ignacio Echevarría, El País «Coetzee es una de las voces más poderosas de la actual literatura anglosajona. Sus libros nos...
Esperando a los bárbaros es una novela de clara intención moral: una parábola de una Sudáfrica desquiciada por el racismo, una denuncia de la brutalidad y de la arrogante ignorancia del poder. Por el Premio Nobel de Literatura...
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in the Observer and Daily Telegraph When you travel across the ocean on a boat, all your memories are washed away and you start a completely new life. That is how it is. There...
The idea of human cruelty to animals so consumes novelist Elizabeth Costello in her later years that she can no longer look another person in the eye: humans, especially meat-eating ones, seem to her to be conspirators in a crime of stupefying magnitude...
4e de couv. : "In the early eighteenth century, Susan Barton finds herself adrift from a mutinous ship and cast ashore on a remote desert island. There she finds shelter with its only other inhabitants: a man named Cruso and his tongueless slave,...
Although Paul Auster and J.M. Coetzee had been reading each other's books for years, the two writers did not meet until February 2008. Not long after, Auster received a letter from Coetzee, suggesting they begin exchanging letters on a regular basis...
After crossing oceans, a man and a boy arrive in a new land. Here they are each assigned a name and an age, and held in a camp in the desert while they learn Spanish, the language of their new country. As SimÃ3n and David they make their way...
Durante una noche de «felicidad indecible» la virtuosa Alcmena es fecundada por quien ella supone su marido, pero que luego resulta ser el dios Júpiter, que ha asumido la forma de su esposo. Si no solo sus sentidos físicos sino...
Nobel Laureate and two-time Booker prize-winning author of Disgrace and The Life and Times of Michael K , J. M. Coetzee tells the remarkable story of a nation gripped in brutal apartheid in his Sunday Express Book of the Year award-winner Age of Iron ....