by J. M. Coetzee · Penguin Publishing Group · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780143037897
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«Slow Man» is the literary novel by J. M. Coetzee, published by Penguin Publishing Group in paperback (256 pages, in English).
Photographer Paul Rayment loses a leg in a bicycle accident and must rethink his life. Coetzee explores love, mortality and the search for meaning through his relationship with his nurse and the appearance of a mysterious writer who pushes him to decide his fate.
The novel was originally published in 2005; it was longlisted for the Booker Prize 2005 and was a finalist for the Dublin Literary Award 2007.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction and followers of the work of J. M. Coetzee, Nobel Prize in Literature.
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.
