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Foe (Paperback)
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Foe (Paperback)
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List price R292
Loot Price R236
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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. At last they are rescued by a passing ship,
but only she and Friday survive the journey back to London.
Determined to have her story told, she pursues the eminent man of
letters Daniel Foe in the hope that he will relate truthfully her
memories to the world. But with Cruso dead, Friday incapable of
speech and Foe himself intent on reshaping her narrative, Barton
struggles to maintain her grip on the past, only to fall victim to
the seduction of storytelling itself. Treacherous, elegant and
unexpectedly moving, Foe remains one of the most exquisitely
composed of this pre-eminent author's works. '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.
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