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Next Book: Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee

After much deliberation, our next book will be J.M. Coetzee's 1999 Man Booker Prize winner Disgrace.

Coetzee was born in South Africa, studied in the U.S. and then returned home to write and teach. His books reflect South African society, the impact of colonization and the on-going transformation of his home nation. His eloquent writing style has been compared to Nabakov and Kafka. In 2003, Coetzee won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

"—Disgrace is not a hard or obscure book—it is, among other things, compulsively readable—but what it may well be is an authentically spiritual document, a lament for the soul of a disgraced century."
—The New Yorker

"—A subtly brilliant commentary on the nature and balance of power in his homeland...Disgrace is a mini-opera without music by a writer at the top of his form."
—Time

posted by MJ @ 10:55 p.m.