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
Review
If The Pole and Other Stories were his [Coetzee's] final work, it would be astonishing... Beneath plain-spoken surfaces unexpected depths are often revealed, glinting with flashes of playful seriousness, humour, and grand, existential strangeness - Guardian
In The Pole, Coetzee forges an autofiction of contemplation, in which thought and inquiry take precedence over melodrama - because time is running out - Financial Times
These stories are… touched with a moral intensity… striking - Literary Review
JM Coetzee is a great writer, perhaps one of the greatest still around… This is Coetzee at his most lugubrious and beguiling: if it turns out to be one of his last works, it can easily claim to be one of the best occasional utterings from a novelist who is as notoriously reclusive in person as he is piercingly acute in writing - Big Issue
The Pole…confirms Coetzee as one of the great writers of fiction… [and] shows that, at 83 years old, there is no diminishing of his talents. Long may he darken our pages with prose - Observer
This book, like all of his work, operates at a bracing, invigorating level, like a dunk in ice-cold water – or, as he writes, “Like driving into an allegory!” - New Statesman, *Book of the Day*
[An] elegant, elegiac collection… [and] though
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