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Summertime
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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.
Sun After Dark
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Pico Iyer&Mdash;One Of The Most Compelling And Profoundly Provocative Travel Writers&Mdash;Invites Us To Accompany Him On An Array Of Exotic Explorations, From L.A. To Yemen To Haiti And Ethiopia, From A Bolivian Prison To A Hidden Monastery In Tibet. He Goes To Cambodia, Where The Main Tourist Attraction Is A Collection Of Skulls From The Khmer Rouge Killing Fields, And Travels Through Southern Arabia In The Weeks Before September 11, 2001. He Practices Meditation With Leonard Cohen And Discusses Geopolitics With The Dalai Lama, Travels To Easter Island And Through The Imaginative Terrains Of W.G. Sebald And Kazuo Ishiguro, Weaving Physical And Psychological Challenges Together Into A Seamless Narrative. Throughout His Travels, The Familiar Thrill Of Adventure Is Haunted By The Unsettling Questions That Arise For Iyer Everywhere He Goes: How Do We Reconcile Suffering With The Sunlight Often Found Around It? How Does The Foreign Instruct The Traveler, Precisely By Discomfiting Him? And, How Does Travel Take Us More Deeply Into Reality, Both Within Us And Without? Intensely Affecting, Iyer&Rsquo;S Explorations Are A Road Map Of Thinking In New Ways About Our Changing World. &Nbsp;