Description:
One of Vanity Fair's "Best Books of the Fall"
From the Nobel Prize-winning author of Disgrace, a psychologically probing, compulsively readable novel about love and the mutability of human relationships.
Brief description: Born in Cape Town, South Africa, J. M. Coetzee is the author of more than twenty books, including The Pole; Waiting for the Barbarians; Life and Times of Michael K, for which Coetzee was awarded the Booker Prize; Boyhood: Scenes from a Provincial Life; and several essay collections. With his novel Disgrace, Coetzee became the first author to win the Booker Prize twice. In 2003, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Review Quotes: [A] svelte and melancholy novel... for a book that draws so heavily on the language and subject matter of music, The Pole remains remarkably quiet. This quietude...proves Coetzee's masterstroke.--Ellie Ebberlie "Chicago Review of Books"