NOVEMBER BOOK
Our November selection is Dusklands (link) by South African author J.M. Coetzee, who has collected a Nobel Prize and two Bookers amongst his roomful of awards. Note: as the second Tuesday of November falls on the 11th (Remembrance Day), we've pushed next month's meeting to Tuesday, November 18th. No changes otherwise: our usual 7pm start time at the cozy Zawa Restaurant (link) at Commercial Drive & Venables. All and sundry welcome to join the usual suspects.
A shattering pair of novellas, Dusklands 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.
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