Coetzee, J. M.

Follows the life of an aging Australian novelist best known for one of her works from the 1960s as she attends and presents lectures and poetry readings, each of which reveals something about her passions, obsessions, and conflicted personality.

When interrogation experts arrive, the Magistrate is jolted into sympathy for their victims and an act of rebellion gets him imprisoned as an enemy of the state.

Returning to London after being marooned on an island in the Atlantic, Susan Barton approaches the author Daniel Foe with the story of her adventures with Robinson Cruso and the mute Friday.

An unattractive, ignored spinster daughter, determined not to be forgotten, takes drastic measures when her father brings home a new wife.

In this autobiographical novel, a young English biographer is researching a book about the late South African writer John Coetzee, focusing on Coetzee in his thirties, at a time when he was living in a rundown cottage in the Cape Town suburbs with his widowed father-- a time, the biographer is convinced, when Coetzee was finding himself as a writer.

When interrogation experts arrive, the Magistrate is jolted into sympathy for their victims and an act of rebellion gets him imprisoned as an enemy of the state.

Mrs. Curren, a dying professor in Cape Town, South Africa has been insulated from the brutality of apartheid but now is forced to come to terms with the iron-hearted rage that the system has wrought.

The author describes growing up north of Cape Town in South Africa in the mid-twentieth century, discussing his first encounters with literature and his impressions of apartheid.