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Violence
Some
Apartheid violence; township killings; a man dies in her garden
Language
None
No profanity
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
A lot
Dying woman's complicity and grief; moral weight of whiteness in South Africa
What this book is about
Coetzee's 1990 novel is an epistolary account from a dying woman who witnesses the apartheid state's violence encroaching on her home. Features township violence, death. For adults.
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Apartheid violence
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