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J. M. Coetzee

Nobel Laureate and two-time Booker prize-winning author of “Disgrace” and “The Life and Times of Michael K”, J. M. Coetzee reimagines Daniel DeFoe’s classic novel “Robinson Crusoe in Foe”. In an act of breathtaking imagination, J.M Coetzee radically reinvents the story of Robinson Crusoe. In the early eighteenth century, Susan Barton finds herself 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.

“A small miracle of a book…of marvellous intricacy and overwhelming power”. (“Washington Post”). “A superb novel”. (“The New York Times”). South African author J. M. Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003 and was the first author to win the Booker Prize twice for his novels “Disgrace” and “The Life and Times of Michael K”. His novel set during the South African apartheid, “Age of Iron”, winner of the “Sunday Express” Book of the Year award is also available in Penguin paperback.