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30 11 y separately published work icon Foe J. M. Coetzee , Johannesburg : Ravan Press , 1986 6180940 1986 single work novel (taught in 1 units)

'In the early eighteenth century, a woman finds herself set 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 Friday. In time, she builds a life for herself as Cruso's companion and, eventually, his lover.' (Source: Libraries Australia)
1 y separately published work icon LIP from Southern African Women Susan Brown (editor), Isabel Hofmeyr (editor), Susan Rosenberg (editor), Johannesburg : Ravan Press , 1983 Z1286643 1983 anthology short story
1 y separately published work icon The Inverted Pyramid Rose Zwi , Johannesburg : Ravan Press , 1981 Z1286684 1981 single work novel historical fiction This is the second novel in a trilogy. This book portrays second generation immigrants living in apartheid in South Africa and wanting to help build a better, equitable society. They plan to live on a kibbutz in Israel where such ideals seem attainable.
43 18 y separately published work icon Waiting for the Barbarians J. M. Coetzee , Johannesburg : Ravan Press , 1981 6303247 1980 single work novel 'How do you eradicate contempt, especially when that contempt is founded on nothing 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 learn to respect them.

After twenty years of peacefully running one of the Empire’s settlements, a magistrate takes pity on an enemy barbarian who has been tortured. He enters into an awkward intimate relationship with her, and then is himself imprisoned as an enemy of the state.

Waiting for the Barbarians is a disturbing political fable about oppression, the fraught desire for reparation, and about living with a troubled conscience under an unjust regime.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
1 1 y separately published work icon South Africa Transit Manfred Jurgensen , Johannesburg : Ravan Press , 1979 Z388863 1979 selected work poetry
27 11 y separately published work icon In the Heart of the Country J. M. Coetzee , Johannesburg : Ravan Press , 1978 6204795 1977 single work novel
44 9 y separately published work icon Life & Times of Michael K J. M. Coetzee , Johannesburg : Ravan Press , 1974 6181890 1974 single work novel (taught in 2 units)

"From the author of Waiting for the Barbarians, another startling and disturbing portrait of today's South Africa, a land and a people beset by violence and siege. Coetzee here tells the story of a handicapped young man who has worked as a municipal gardener in Cape Town. His mother is dying, and she wishes to return to her birthplace out in the veldt. Without the required transit passes, mother and son set out on a journey that will end in death for her and in a new but temporary life on an abandoned farm for him. His respite in isolation and peace does not last long, however; grotesque reality soon returns to trouble this quiet new world. Against the solitude of this private drama, Coetzee paints an eloquent and pained picture of his homeland and of the bureaucrats, doctors, army deserters, and camp guards who reveal the stress and qualms of their existence and who uneasily sense that there is no conclusion to their troubles and no future for their lives." (Source: Libraries Australia)
19 13 y separately published work icon Dusklands J. M. Coetzee , Johannesburg : Ravan Press , 1974 6173882 1974 single work novel

"This work contains two novellas. In the first [The Vietnam Project], a specialist in psychological warfare is driven to murderous action by the stresses of a macabre project to win the Vietnam War, and in the second [The Narrative of Jacobus Coetzee], a megalomaniac Boer frontiersman wreaks hideous vengeance on a Hottentot tribe". (Source: Libraries Australia)
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