pickIn unsentimental, spare prose, Coetzee tells the story of two murders in a Cape Town neighbourhood called The Shadows. Coetzee is great at getting the distinct POV of each character from the friend group. The passages from Carl's perspective were particularly gutting: "I always wondered why grownups drank the way they did, until I became a grownup the day mom died." Coetzee originally wrote this novel in Kaaps, a spoken language in South Africa.
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