Books by J. M. Coetzee

Disgrace (1999)
In an novel set in postapartheid South Africa, a fiftytwoyearold college professor who has lost his ...

Summertime (2010)
Researching a late South African writer, a young English biographer interviews five people whose acc...

Elizabeth Costello (2004)
Reveals the life of aging Australian novelist Elizabeth Costello through a series of formal addresse...

Slow Man (2006)
Rendered dependent on others after losing his leg in a bicycle accident, sixty-year-old photographer...

Waiting for the Barbarians (2010)
For decades the Magistrate has been a loyal servant of the Empire, running the affairs of a tiny fro...

Youth (2003)
Hoping to escape his South African home, dysfunctional family, and what he believes to be an impendi...

Age of Iron (1998)
South African professor Mrs. Curren has always been opposed to apartheid's brutality though she has ...

The Lives of Animals (1999)
Discusses animal rights through essays, fiction, and fables from a variety of perspectives in fields...

Life & Times of Michael K. (1983)
Michael K, a young South African, becomes unwillingly and unwittingly involved in a war in South Afr...