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Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond Novels)
Ian Fleming
Penguin (Non-Classics)
Penguin (Non-Classics)
Tiffany Case, a cold, gorgeous, devil-may-care blonde, stands between James Bond and the leaders of a diamond-smuggling ring that stretches from Africa to London to the United States. Bond uses her to infiltrate this gang, but once in America the...
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Waiting for the Barbarians (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
J. M. Coetzee
Penguin (Non-Classics)
Penguin (Non-Classics)
These deluxe editions are packaged with French flaps, acid-free paper, and rough front. "A real literary event."-- The New York Times Book Review "A story of profound beauty, clarity and eloquence, which even at its most melodramatic holds to a...
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Disgrace (Penguin Essential Editions)
J. M. Coetzee
Penguin (Non-Classics)
Penguin (Non-Classics)
Disgrace --set in post--apartheid Cape Town and on a remote farm in the Eastern Cape--is deft, lean, quiet, and brutal. A heartbreaking novel about a man and his daughter, Disgrace is a portrait of the new South Africa that is ultimately about...
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Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black: And Other Stories
Nadine Gordimer
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
"You’re not responsible for your ancestry, are you . . . But if that’s so, why have marched under banned slogans, got yourself beaten up by the police, arrested a couple of times; plastered walls with subversive posters . . . The past is valid...
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Age of Iron
J. M. Coetzee
Penguin (Non-Classics)
Penguin (Non-Classics)
In Cape Town, South Africa, an old woman is dying of cancer. A classics professor, Mrs. Curren has been opposed to the lies and brutality of apartheid all her life, but has lived insulated from its true horrors. Now she is suddenly forced to come to...
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Brighton Rock
Graham Greene
Penguin Classics
Penguin Classics
With a new introduction by J.M. Coetzee A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous Ida Arnold, who is...
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The Lives of Animals (The University Center for Human Values Series)
J. M. Coetzee
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
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...
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In the Heart of the Country: A Novel
J. M. Coetzee
Penguin (Non-Classics)
Penguin (Non-Classics)
A novel set in colonial South Africa, where a lonely sheepfarmer makes a bid for private salvation in the arms of a black concubine, while his daughter dreams of and executes a bloody revenge. From the author of DUSKLANDS and WAITING FOR THE...
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The Life and Times of Michael K
J.M. Coetzee
Vintage Books
Vintage Books
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. Imprisoned, Michael is unable to bear confinement and...
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Ways of Dying: A Novel
Zakes Mda
Picador
Picador
Winner of the M-Net Book Prize Shortlisted for the CNA and Noma Awards In Ways of Dying , Zakes Mda's acclaimed first novel, Toloki is a "professional mourner" in a vast and violent city of the new South Africa. Day after day he attends...
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