J. M. Coetzee was the first author to win the Booker Prize twice and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003. He lives in Adelaide.
'Intense, clear and powerful. The promise, so brilliantly fulfilled in his later work, is clear in this earliest novel.' * Daily Telegraph * 'Exhilarating...One of the best novelists alive.' * Sunday Times * 'An intimacy born from urgency crackles through each of [Coetzee's] books, as if one is not reading a text but being plugged into a brand new form of current-reinvented each time to carry a new and urgent form of narrative information...Coetzee is the most radical shapeshifter alive.' -- John Freeman * Australian *