Slow Man, J.M. Coetzee business & economics So begins this beautifully told

So begins this beautifully told story that unfolds over a quarter of a century—in which these two families

This is the murder trial of the century

slightly tarnished in a few spots

She doesn't know it yet

Slow Man, J.M. Coetzee business & economics So begins this beautifully toldPaul Rayment is on the threshold of a comfortable old age when a calamitous cycling accident results in the amputation of a leg. Humiliated, his body truncated, his life circumscribed, he turns away from his friends. He hires a nurse named Marijana, with whom he has a European childhood in common: hers in Croatia, his in France. Tactfully and efficiently she ministers to his needs. But his feelings for her, and for her handsome teenage son, are