# Diary of a Bad Year

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- Book: [Diary of a Bad Year](https://www.bookquiver.com/j-m-coetzee/diary-of-a-bad-year) ([Diary of a Bad Year.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/j-m-coetzee/diary-of-a-bad-year.md))
- Authors: [J. M. Coetzee](https://www.bookquiver.com/j-m-coetzee)
- Publisher: penguin_books
- ISBN: 978-01-4311-448-2
- Pages: 240
- Published: 2008-10-28
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Diary of a Bad Year 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. J. M. Coetzee's latest...