J.M. Coetzee The Pole & Other Stories Paperback Book

In this beautifully written and compulsively readable story of love and the mutability of human relationships, pianist Witolds infatuation with Beatriz will change them both. A Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph and Financial Times Book of the YearConfirms Coetzee as one of the great writers of fiction ObserverAfter his piano recital in Barcelona, Witold Walczykiewicz whitehaired 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 strangers letters, music, and poetry flood into her home, a dream of love begins that surprises them both. One of the worlds most original writers He is still breaking new ground at the same time as revealing a funny side iHis prose, apparently simple, is so perfected at every turn that it is moving to read, line after line Sunday Times | J.M. Coetzee The Pole & Other Stories Paperback Book