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The Pole and Other Stories

J.M. Coetzee

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In this beautifully written and compulsively readable story of love and the mutability of human relationships, pianist Witold's infatuation with Beatriz will change them both.

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

Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Binding: Paperback
Publication date: 17 Oct 2024
Dimensions: 127 x 197 x 19 mm
ISBN: 9781529920635