J. M. Coetzee

Summertime is a 2009 novel by South African-born Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee. It is the third in a series of fictionalized memoirs by Coetzee and details the life of one John Coetzee from the perspective of five people who have known him. The novel largely takes place in the mid to late 1970s, largely in Cape Town, …

Negro, pobre, feio e sem ninguém no mundo - sua mãe acaba de morrer -, Michael K vaga pela África do Sul convulsionada pela guerra civil. Obrigado a esconder-se da polícia, ele vive à deriva em estradas, fazendas abandonadas, cavernas ou num campo de trabalhos forçados. Michael K alimenta-se de raízes, insetos e, …

Youth is a semi-fictionalised autobiographical novel by J. M. Coetzee, recounting his struggles in 1960s London after fleeing the political unrest of Cape Town.