0690 | Waiting for the Barbarians | J. M. Coetzee
A clear indictment of all nations built on colonial ambition but more broadly the propensity within all of us to characterise and brutalise The Other, Coetzee’s novel pulls no punches….
A clear indictment of all nations built on colonial ambition but more broadly the propensity within all of us to characterise and brutalise The Other, Coetzee’s novel pulls no punches….
Absolutely fantastic book. Just one of those that you come across and know immediately that you’re going to end up buying someone a copy because you just want to share…
A tough read this one, for a number of reasons. Firstly, it’s long and you are going to wish you were nearer the end than the beginning on many occasions….
I’ve read a fair few books from South Africa that deal (unsurprisingly) with the issue of relationships between the black and white communities. Nadine Gordimer’s novel is, sadly, not the…
Context: Finished this as Mrs Arukiyomi was hosting one of her popular cafes one Saturday. REVIEW This was a really strange novel. You can’t win the Nobel Prize without being…
Context: Spent over 2 hours burning unbelievable amounts of old paperwork from our office while I was reading this. Very satisfying! REVIEW Coetzee is turning into one of my favourite…
Context: started packing for our final move of these nearly three years (we hope) up to Ukarumpa in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. REVIEW Paton’s Cry, the…
Context: Finished this the weekend we started cooking our own food in shelters we’d built ourselves called haus kuks. REVIEW Seems to be a season of South Africa! Following…
Context: Finished this book off and read most of it under the haus win shelter at Nobnob in Madang, PNG. REVIEW This is a curious little book about a man…
If you enjoyed this book, you’re going to love the map. REVIEW This is a profoundly moving book made all the more poignant for the era in which it was…
If you enjoyed this book, you’re going to love the map. REVIEW I’ve not read a book with a more apt title for a while. This is a book about…
Read this with Sheena while travelling around SE Asia. Never read a book about S. Africa so it was an insight simply from that point of view. A S. African…