by J.M. Coetzee · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099490623
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«Slow Man» is the novel by J.M. Coetzee, published by Vintage in paperback (240 pages, in English).
After losing a leg in a bicycle accident, retired photographer Paul Rayment faces a solitary convalescence. His nurse, the Croatian Marijana, and her teenage son awaken in him a new affection; the arrival of the writer Elizabeth Costello disrupts his recovery and his feelings.
J.M. Coetzee is a South African writer and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature; Slow Man belongs to contemporary literary fiction.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction, especially those seeking stories about old age, solitude and identity.
John Maxwell Coetzee AC FRSL OMG is a South African and Australian novelist, essayist, linguist, and translator. The recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature, Coetzee is one of the most critically acclaimed and decorated authors in the English language. He has won the Booker Prize (twice), the CNA Literary Award (thrice), the Jerusalem Prize, the Prix Femina étranger, and The Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and holds a number of other awards and honorary doctorates.
