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I’ve noticed that Coetzee is intentionally vague about the race of people in his books, yet the very real themes of apartheid & colonialism come through clearly. Here, he paints a bleak, violent picture of an imagined civil war & people living in desperation & fear. His subject matter & writing challenge me in a way that keeps me. No wonder he’s a Nobel Prize winner & this book won the Booker Prize.

I’ve noticed that Coetzee is intentionally vague about the race of people in his books, yet the very real themes of apartheid & colonialism come through clearly. Here, he paints a bleak, violent picture of an imagined civil war & people living in desperation & fear. His subject matter & writing challenge me in a way that always keeps me. No wonder he’s a Nobel Prize winner & this book won the Booker Prize.