Diary of a Bad Year

Diary of a Bad Year  takes on the world of politics--a new topic for

Coetzee--and explores the role of the writer in our times with an

extraordinary moral compass. 

J.M. Coetzee's latest novel,   The Schooldays of Jesus , is now available

from Viking.  Late Essays: 2006-2016  will be available January 2018. ****

J.M. Coetzee once again breaks literary ground with Diary of a Bad Year , a

book that is, in the words of its protagonist, a response to the present in

which I find myself. Aging author Senor C has been commissioned to write a

series of essays entitled Strong Opinions, of which he has many. After hiring

a beautiful young typist named Anya, the two embark on a relationship that

will have a profound impact on them both especially when Alan, Anya's no-good

boyfriend, develops designs on Senor C's bank account. Told in these three

voices simultaneously, Coetzee has created any entirely new way of telling a

story, and nothing less than an involving, argumentative, moving novel ( The

New Yorker ).

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