By J. M. Coetzee
Paul Rayment is at the threshold of a comfy outdated age whilst a calamitous biking twist of fate ends up in the amputation of a leg. Humiliated, his physique truncated, his existence circumscribed, he turns clear of his friends.
He hires a nurse named Marijana, with whom he has a eu youth in universal: hers in Croatia, his in France. Tactfully and successfully she ministers to his wishes. yet his emotions for her, and for her good-looking teenage son, are advanced by way of the surprising arrival on his doorstep of the distinguished Australian novelist Elizabeth Costello, who threatens to take over the path of his existence and the affairs of his center.
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