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J.M.Coetzee. Bezchestya. (Disgrace)

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J.M.Coetzee. Bezchestya. (Disgrace)
John Maxwell Coetzee is a South African novelist, essayist, linguist, translator. Before receiving the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature, Coetzee was awarded the Booker Prize (twice), among other accolades.
"Professor David Lurie does not impress students, who are not that much interested in the English literature of the nineteenth century. Being fifty-two, he has already been divorced twice, but he does not lose interest in women and seeks for opportunities to satisfy his intimate needs. There are only rare semesters when he does not fall in love with some of the students. However, his last affair knocks him out of the established rhythm and leads to irreversible changes. The professor moves to live with his daughter in a village, where the new, extremely complex phase in his life starts..."
Translated from English by Yelena Daskal
In Ukrainian.
Type of the edition: hard cover
Format: 130x200 mm
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Bookclub, Kharkiv
Contents
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- Rozdil 1 – rozdil 24

Publisher: BookClub
Catalogue number: ISBN 9786171231405
Year: 2017

Domestic price: 236.60UAH
International price: $16.90USD
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