Slow Man, J.M. Coetzee business & economics She doesn't know it yet

She doesn't know it yet

concerning the definition of justice

But all that's about to change

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 She doesn't know it yetPaul 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