This is a 2009 novel by Nobel Prize winning South African writer JM Coetzee, who has also won the Booker Prize twice for the novels Disgrace and The Life and Times of Michael K. This book, along with a handful of his others, was also nominated for the prize. I mention all of this because of the nature of this book. This book is written as a multi-voiced biographical research project taken on by a young, male, British biography after the recent death of Nobel […]
A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.
Summertime by JM Coetzee
