Slow Man, J.M. Coetzee business & economics slightly tarnished in a few

slightly tarnished in a few spots

policy analyst

But all that's about to change

readable map of the perplexing world of codependency--charting the path to freedom and a lifetime of healing

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 slightly tarnished in a fewPaul 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