Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee

Slow Man by J.M. CoetzeePaul Rayment is on the threshold of a comfortable old age when a calamitous cycling accident results in the amputation of a leg. Humiliated, his body truncated, his life circumscribed, he turns away from his friends. He hires a nurse named Marijana, with whom he has a European childhood in common: hers in Croatia, his in France. Tactfully and efficiently she ministers to his needs. But his feelings for her, and for her handsome teenage son, are

it isn’t until a newspaper report about a satellite launch catches his eye that he suspects all is not what it seems…The year is 1958

clearly explaining the significance of the result

a young black man who is trapped in a life of poverty in the slums of Chicago

The award-winning filmmaker Onir

remembers every horror committed in detail and is completely aware of the British Law

the psychologists who devised methods for measuring natural mental abilities and the educationalists who built ladders of educational opportunity

Whether this heralds the destruction of humankind or something worse will depend on two women

As they listen

Someone is following her

Gelong Thubten shares a practical and sustainable approach to happiness

a novel which earned the dead Laura Chase not only notoriety but also a devoted cult following

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