by J. M. Coetzee · Secker · tapa dura · ISBN 9780436206115
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«Slow Man» is the novel by J. M. Coetzee, published by Secker & Warburg in hardcover (265 pages, in English).
After a bicycle accident, Paul Rayment loses a leg and sees his life limited. He hires Marijana, a Croatian nurse, and a bond of affection and dependence grows between them. The arrival of Australian writer Elizabeth Costello, who intends to direct his destiny, complicates the situation. The novel addresses suffering and care.
Originally published in September 2005. The novel was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2005 and was a finalist for the Dublin Literary Award in 2007.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction interested in the work of Nobel Prize in Literature winner 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.
