{"product_id":"dusklands-9780140241778","title":"Dusklands","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"J.M. Coetzee's vision goes to the nerve center of being.\"--Nadine Gordimer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe revolutionary first fiction by Nobel Prize Winner, J.M. Coetzee\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA shattering pair of novellas in the tradition of Conrad's \u003ci\u003eHeart of Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Dusklands\u003c\/i\u003e probes the links between the powerful and the powerless. \"Vietnam Project\" is narrated by a researcher investigating the effectiveness of United States propaganda and psychological warfare in Vietnam. The question of power is also explored in \"The Narrative of Jacobus Coetzee,\" the story of an eighteenth-century Boer frontiersman who vows revenge on the Hottentot natives because they have failed to treat him with the respect that he thinks a white man deserves. With striking intensity, J. M. Coetzee penetrates the twilight land of obsession, charting the nature on colonization as it seeks, in 1970 as in 1760, to absorb the wilds into the Western dusklands. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e2024 is the 50th Anniversary of the publication of \u003ci\u003eDusklands\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn in Cape Town, South Africa, on February 9, 1940, \u003cb\u003eJohn Michael Coetzee \u003c\/b\u003estudied 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 \u003ci\u003eDusklands, Waiting for the Barbarians\u003c\/i\u003e, which won South Africa's highest literary honor, the Central News Agency Literary Award, and the \u003ci\u003eLife and Times of Michael K.\u003c\/i\u003e, for which Coetzee was awarded his first Booker Prize in 1983. He has also published a memoir, \u003ci\u003eBoyhood: Scenes From a Provincial Life\u003c\/i\u003e, and several essays collections. He has won many other literary prizes including the Lannan Award for Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize and \u003ci\u003eThe Irish Times\u003c\/i\u003e International Fiction Prize. In 1999 he again won Britain's prestigious Booker Prize for \u003ci\u003eDisgrace\u003c\/i\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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50459937571090,"sku":"9780140241778","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_083e9c60-96af-4abb-99c9-2be125152b98.jpg?v=1730016529","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/dusklands-9780140241778","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}