Dusklands by J.M. Coetzee

Dusklands by J.M. CoetzeeA megalomaniac Boer frontiersman wreaks hideous vengeance on a Hottentot tribe for undermining the 'natural' order of his universe with their anarchic rival order, mocking him and subjecting him to the humiliations of his own all too palpable flesh. A specialist in psychological warfare is driven to breakdown and madness by the stresses of a project of macabre ingenuity to win the war in Vietnam. Both the 18th century Jacobus Coetzee and the 20th

Enter Mia Warren - an enigmatic artist and single mother- who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenage daughter Pearl

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Ghosh asserts

a Japanese savant whose deep expertise about teeth rivaled anyone on Earth

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as I always do

Because how do you decide what makes life worth living

Their hopes for a life more suited to their cultivated tastes and sensibilities provide a touching counterpoint to the relentless flow of compromising events in the real world

quaking cold

A fusion of myth

Kim Jiyoung is depressed

her rebellions