by J. M. Coetzee · Random House · tapa dura · ISBN 9788439713937
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«Hombre lento» is the novel by J. M. Coetzee, published by Random House in hardcover (272 pages, in Spanish).
After losing a leg in an accident, Paul Rayment, an aging photographer, finds his life in Adelaide turned upside down: he rejects the prosthesis, confronts dependence, and falls in love with his Croatian nurse, Marijana. The writer Elizabeth Costello challenges him to take the reins again. A reflection on old age, love, and what makes us human.
Translation by Javier Calvo Perales. Original title: Slow Man. Author awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in stories of love in old age, second chances, and overcoming adversity after an accident.
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.
