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Foe

J.M. Coetzee

124 pages

About this book

While marooned on an island in the Atlantic, Sue Barton finds herself a character in a fiction novel. She spends a year with two other castaways, a mute Negro called Friday and Robinson Cruso.

Themes
Dark & BroodingMysteriousPhilosophy & Big IdeasStrange & UnsettlingThought-ProvokingTheft of voiceSilence as resistanceAuthorial exploitation
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