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Shortlisted for this year's Man Booker Prize An excellent new work of fiction in the Nobel Prize-winning composer of Shame and Journal of a Poor Year A English biographer is studying a book concerning the late South-African writer John Coetzee, concentrating on Coetzee in his thirties, in a time when he was residing in a run-down bungalow within the Cape Town suburbs together with his widowed dad-a time, the biographer is confident, when Coetzee was discovering herself as a writer. Never having met the person himself, the biographer interviews five individuals who understood Coetzee nicely, including a married person with whom he'd an affair, his relative Margot, and a Brazilian ballerina whose child got English classes with him. These balances total up to a picture of an uncomfortable, reserved, and bookish child who finds it difficult to create significant connections with all the people around him. Summer is definitely an inspired and creative work of fiction which allows J.M.