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Foe (Penguin Essentials)

Autor J.M. Coetzee

Editorial ALLEN LANE

Foe (Penguin Essentials)
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A small miracle of a book...of marvellous intricacy and overwhelming power (Washington Post)A finely honed testament to its author's intelligence, imagination and skill (The New York Times) ...

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  • Editorial ALLEN LANE
  • ISBN13 9780241950111
  • ISBN10 0241950112
  • Tipo LIBRO
  • Páginas 160
  • Año de Edición 2010
  • Idioma Inglés

Foe (Penguin Essentials)

Autor J.M. Coetzee

Editorial ALLEN LANE

A small miracle of a book...of marvellous intricacy and overwhelming power (Washington Post)A finely honed testament to its author's intelligence, imagination and skill (The New York Times) ...

-5% dto.    12,50€
11,88€
Ahorra 0,63€
No disponible, consulte disponibilidad
Envío gratis a partir de 19€
España peninsular

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A small miracle of a book...of marvellous intricacy and overwhelming power (Washington Post)

A finely honed testament to its author's intelligence, imagination and skill (The New York Times)

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.

J. M. Coetzee was born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1940. The author of some fifteen novels and winner of numerous awards, Coetzee is the first author to have been awarded the Booker Prize twice: for Life & Times of Michael K in 1983 and for Disgrace in 1999. In 2003 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He lives in Australia.

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