J. M. Coetzee: The Pole and Other Stories, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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Discover a love story full of music and surprise, from a twice-Booker Prize winner

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