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L'Abbe C - Georges BatailleL'Abbe C by Georges Bataille is a shocking, unnerving narrative about the intense and terrifying relationship between twin brothers. Charles is a modern libertine, dedicated to vice and depravity, while Robert is a priest so devout that he is nicknamed 'l'Abbé'. When the sexually wild Eponine intrudes upon their suffocating relationship, anguish, delirium, and death ensue. |
ZAR 95.00 |
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Disgrace - J.M. CoetzeeDisgrace by J.M. Coetzee concerns David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, a scholar fallen into disgrace. After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, he has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. |
ZAR 350.00 |
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Age Of Iron - J.M. CoetzeeAge Of Iron by J.M. Coetzee is set in Cape Town, South Africa, where an old woman is dying of cancer. A classics professor, Mrs. Curren has been opposed to the lies and brutality of apartheid all her life, but she has lived insulated from its true horrors. Now she is suddenly forced to come to terms with the iron-hearted rage that the system has wrought. |
ZAR 350.00 |
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Face To Face - Nadine GordimerFirst edition copy of Face To Face by Nadine Gordimer, her first book, a collection of short stories. In these stories Gordimer has revealed the psychological consequences of a racially divided society. |
ZAR 1,200.00 |
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Mhudi first edition - Sol. T. PlaatjeFirst edition copy of Mhudi: An Epic of South African Native Life One Hundred Years Ago by Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje. |
ZAR 4,500.00 |
