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    <body><![CDATA[Post-war Austrian poet Ingeborg Bachmann writes in her poem “Always Among Words”:<br/><br/>Between a word and a thing<br/>you only encounter yourself,<br/>lying between each<br/>as if next to someone ill,<br/>never being able to get to either,<br/>tasting a sound and a body,<br/>and reli...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60281215">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Setting cerita mengambil lokasi di Afrika Selatan. Sesuai dengan judulnya, aib, ada dua kejadian besar yang memalukan yang diceritakan dalam buku ini. Yang pertama terjadi pada tokoh utama, David Lurrie, seorang dosen senior bidang study Sastra Inggris berkulit putih - penggila seks yang dikeluarkan...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2566694">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've read some Coetzee and I don't recommend reading his works when you're feeling any sense of turmoil yourself.. I felt a profound heaviness while reading this book, it's so stark, moving, and devastating.. His writing style is awesome, you just have to prepare yourself to feel as if the wind were...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46015190">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Surprisingly enough - I really liked this book. I seem to have a strange affinity lately to stories involving mothers and daughters, albeit the mother not being my age but my mothers' age.  I am truly amazed that a man can write such a book which rings very true. But then there are of course also th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29358611">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This one of my favorite books of all times. I do recommend it.<br/><br/>It gives an insight to other people's lives and culture and makes you appreciate what you have and be thankful for it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've read most of Coetzee and I don't know why it took me so long to get around to this one but I'm glad I didn't start with it. It is, I think, his only novel dealing directly with apartheid in a contemporary setting. (<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=The Life &amp; Times of Michael K." title="The Life & Times of Michael K.">The Life &amp; Times of Michael K.</a> is not quite an &quot;apartheid&quot; novel.)...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7216383">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Enjoyable and edifying.  The work introduced me to several human aspects of South Africa's recent history.  The writing is crisp and flows well.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reading this book for an upcoming trip to South Africa.  Interesting look at the devasting legacies of apartheid on whites and blacks.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This story captures the change so well and really changes the perspective to make it both education as well as entertaining.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A really great novel. Sadly, I had never read Coetzee before, but I promise you, that is going to change.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A short and seemingly conventional novel, the more you think about the plot the stranger it is though. ]]></body>
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