by J.M. Coetzee · LITERATURA RANDOM HOUSE · tapa dura · ISBN 9788439722397
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«Verano» is the memoir novel by J.M. Coetzee, published by Literatura Random House in hardback (272 pages, in Spanish).
A young English biographer investigates the life of the recently deceased John Coetzee, focusing on the writer's thirties, when he lived in Cape Town with his widowed father. Interviews with a former lover, his cousin Margot, and a Brazilian dancer portray a clumsy man devoted to writing in 1970s South Africa.
Third instalment of the trilogy «Escenas de una vida de provincias», after «Infancia» and «Juventud». Translated by Jordi Fibla Feito. Originally published in English as «Summertime» in 2009.
For readers of literary fiction who enjoy fictionalised memoirs and the play between reality and fiction, and the work of J.M. Coetzee.
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.
