The Pole and Other Stories

The Pole is one of the best books of the year by any author of any age, exhibiting not the slightest diminution in his powers... here is not a sentence that is difficult to understand, and yet the book provokes thought and wonder on every page

Autorentext
J.M. Coetzee's work includes Waiting for the Barbarians, Life & Times of Michael K, Boyhood, Youth, Disgrace, Summertime, The Childhood of Jesus and, most recently, The Schooldays of Jesus. He was the first author to win the Booker Prize twice and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003.

Klappentext

**In this beautifully written and compulsively readable story of love and the mutability of human relationships, pianist Witold's infatuation with Beatriz will change them both.

A Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph and Financial Times Book of the Year

'Confirms Coetzee as one of the great writers of fiction' *Observer***

After his piano recital in Barcelona, Witold Walczykiewicz - white-haired virtuoso, controversial interpreter of Chopin - becomes infatuated with Beatriz, his designated companion at dinner. Beatriz, a stylish patron of the arts, is at first unmoved. But as the stranger's letters, music, and poetry flood into her home, a dream of love begins that surprises them both.

*'One of the world's most original writers... He is still breaking new ground at the same time as revealing a funny side' i*

'His prose, apparently simple, is so perfected at every turn that it is moving to read, line after line' Sunday Times**

Zusammenfassung
If The Pole and Other Stories were his [Coetzee's] final work, it would be astonishing... Beneath plain-spoken surfaces unexpected depths are often revealed, glinting with flashes of playful seriousness, humour, and grand, existential strangeness Guardian