Summertime

　　A rich, funny, and deeply affecting autobiographical new novel from one of the world's greatest living writers.
　　
　　A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. He plans to focus on a period in the seventies when, the biographer senses, Coetzee was 'finding his feet as a writer'. He embarks on a series of interviews with people who were impo... (展开全部) 　　A rich, funny, and deeply affecting autobiographical new novel from one of the world's greatest living writers.
　　
　　A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. He plans to focus on a period in the seventies when, the biographer senses, Coetzee was 'finding his feet as a writer'. He embarks on a series of interviews with people who were important to Coetzee -- a married woman with whom he had an affair, his favourite cousin Margot, a Brazilian dancer whose daughter had English lessons with him, former friends and colleagues. Thus emerges a portrait of the young Coetzee as an awkward, bookish individual, regarded as an outsider within the family. His insistence on doing manual work, his long hair and beard, and rumours that he writes poetry evoke nothing but suspicion in the South Africa of the time.　　

　　J. M. 库切 (1940－　)
　　2003年诺贝尔文学奖获得者，著名作家和学者。生于南非开普敦，先后在南非和美国接受教育。库切学识渊博，在文学、哲学、社会学、伦理学和宗教方面造诣颇深，是一位学者型作家。几乎囊括所有文学大奖，两次获得布克奖，是英语文学中获奖最多的作家。1980年小说《等待野蛮人》一出版，即为库切赢得了国际声誉，英国企鹅出版社将此书列入“20世纪经典”系列。库切是一个有道德原则的怀疑论者，从根子上抓住了文明的痼疾。

今天出版？	来自芥川川		2009-10-27