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and John wanting to settle down with the woman who captured his heart

But all that's about to change

This is the murder trial of the century

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

Slow Man, J.M. Coetzee business & economics readable map of the perplexingPaul 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