Ammaniti and Coetzee: Seeing double?
November 28, 2008 by Rob
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After announcing the UK launch of Niccolò Ammaniti’s The Crossroads earlier tonight, I got to thinking just how much the cover for The Crossroads looks like the cover for Coetzee’s 1999 Booker Prize winning novel Disgrace.
There’s undoubtedly some kind of dog ‘n’ dirt-road theme going on isn’t there? 
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Update: Now that I have The Crossroads in my possession I was able to take my own comparison picture of Ammaniti’s cover next to Coetzee’s:
What do you think?
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Rob, a self-confessed bibliophile, is without any hope of rehabilitation. He gets unnaturally excited over anything book-shaped, and if book sniffing were a crime then he would have been locked up years ago (which wouldn't bother him in the slightest provided his cell were lined with books)
I thought exactly the same and was about to make a post on it when I found your post! (since I just read Disgrace and you just read the Crossroads) Oh well I’m months late, aren’t I?
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Haha…yeah for once I was on the ball and spotted this instantly. Niccolò was actually asked why the deliberate homage to Coetzee on the cover? (he was asked by this week’s ROTW Lizzy as it happens)
He simply replied that it was nothing to do with him, it was his publisher’s decision.
HERE’S the original question and answer on the World Literature Forum.
Warmest
Rob
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