{"product_id":"diary-of-a-bad-year-diary-of-a-bad-year-fiction-9780143114482","title":"Diary of a Bad Year: Diary of a Bad Year: Fiction","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): J. M. Coetzee\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc\/Tr\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc\/Tr\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Literary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDiary of a Bad Year\u003c\/i\u003e takes on the world of politics--a new topic for Coetzee--and explores the role of the writer in our times with an extraordinary moral compass. \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJ.M. Coetzee's latest novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Schooldays of Jesus\u003c\/i\u003e, is now available from Viking. \u003ci\u003eLate Essays: 2006-2016\u003c\/i\u003e will be available January 2018. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e J.M. Coetzee once again breaks literary ground with \u003ci\u003eDiary of a Bad Year\u003c\/i\u003e, a book that is, in the words of its protagonist, a response to the present in which I find myself. Aging author Senor C has been commissioned to write a series of essays entitled Strong Opinions, of which he has many. After hiring a beautiful young typist named Anya, the two embark on a relationship that will have a profound impact on them both especially when Alan, Anya's no-good boyfriend, develops designs on Senor C's bank account. Told in these three voices simultaneously, Coetzee has created any entirely new way of telling a story, and nothing less than an involving, argumentative, moving novel (\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e).","brand":"Penguin Adult Hc\/Tr","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45355107942551,"sku":"9780143114482","price":812.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780143114482.webp?v=1767670455","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/diary-of-a-bad-year-diary-of-a-bad-year-fiction-9780143114482","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}