{"product_id":"diary-of-a-bad-year-isbn-9780143114482","title":"Diary of a Bad Year","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDiary of a Bad Year\u003c\/i\u003e takes on the world of politics—a new topic for Coetzee—and explores the role of the writer in our times with an extraordinary moral compass. \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJ.M. Coetzee's latest novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Schooldays of Jesus\u003c\/i\u003e, is now available from Viking. \u003ci\u003eLate Essays: 2006-2016\u003c\/i\u003e will be available January 2018. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e J.M. Coetzee once again breaks literary ground with \u003ci\u003eDiary of a Bad Year\u003c\/i\u003e, a book that is, in the words of its protagonist, a response to the present in which I find myself. Aging author Senor C has been commissioned to write a series of essays entitled Strong Opinions, of which he has many. After hiring a beautiful young typist named Anya, the two embark on a relationship that will have a profound impact on them both especially when Alan, Anya's no-good boyfriend, develops designs on Senor C's bank account. Told in these three voices simultaneously, Coetzee has created any entirely new way of telling a story, and nothing less than an involving, argumentative, moving novel (\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e).Born in Cape Town, South Africa, on February 9, 1940, John Michael Coetzee studied first at Cape Town and later at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned a Ph.D. degree in literature. In 1972 he returned to South Africa and joined the faculty of the University of Cape Town. His works of fiction include \u003cb\u003eDusklands, Waiting for the Barbarians\u003c\/b\u003e, which won South Africa’s highest literary honor, the Central News Agency Literary Award, and the \u003cb\u003eLife and Times of Michael K\u003c\/b\u003e., for which Coetzee was awarded his first Booker Prize in 1983. He has also published a memoir, \u003cb\u003eBoyhood: Scenes From a Provincial Life\u003c\/b\u003e, and several essays collections. He has won many other literary prizes including the Lannan Award for Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize and The \u003cb\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/b\u003e International Fiction Prize. In 1999 he again won Britain’s prestigious Booker Prize for \u003cb\u003eDisgrace\u003c\/b\u003e, becoming the first author to win the award twice in its 31-year history. In 2003, Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46299732705509,"sku":"NP9780143114482","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143114482.jpg?v=1767725083","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/diary-of-a-bad-year-isbn-9780143114482","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}