Author:Urs Faes,Jamie Lee Searle
Discover this beautiful winter gem of a novella that makes the perfect stocking filler this Christmas.
'I may have been gone a long time, but I'm no stranger...'
Manfred walks alone through a snowy valley, surrounded by his memories, on a pilgrimage of sorts to his childhood home. He's been estranged from his brother Sebastian for decades, ever since their bitter feud over the love of a woman and the inheritance of the family farm.
Twelve Nights transports us to the wintry depths of Europe's Black Forest, through the stillness of the snow-covered hills, the dense woods, the cold and mist, in those dark, wild days between Christmas and Epiphany. These nights are a time of tradition and superstition, of tales told around the local innkeeper's table of marauding spirits, as tangible as the ghosts of Manfred's past. But the twelfth night, Epiphany, promises new beginnings, and a hope of reconciliation at last.
Twelve Nights is a hymn to the winter landscape and the power of storytelling, a beautiful novella of the natural world and our place in it.
Compelling, often very funny, full of sudden depths
—— ObserverBrilliant...tenaciously absorbing
—— Daily TelegraphIt is written with the coolness and limpidity that makes Coetzee a master... There were moments where I found it almost too affecting to read
—— David Sexton , Evening StandardIt’s compulsively enigmatic but surprisingly funny too.
—— MetroCoetzee doesn't want to be understood, or explained. He wants, merely, to be read. The Schooldays of Jesus is, indeed, very readable
—— The TimesThe book’s interest comes almost entirely from its strangeness – its world continues to be charmingly, earnestly weird.
—— Roger Bellin , Literary ReviewHe is a proven master with an increasingly wilful streak, always a writer to excite, while for a reader with a fondness for backing a good horse, here it is. While it is always dangerous to push an as yet unpublished work, but in the case of Coetzee, this could be a book of the year, never mind an expected contender.
—— Eileen Battersby , Irish Times[It is] surprisingly involving...richly suggestive.
—— Stephanie Cross , Daily MailFreed from literary convention, Mr Coetzee writes not to provide answers, but to ask great questions.
—— The Economist[A] tenaciously absorbing sequel.
—— Duncan White , Sunday TelegraphIt’s a subtly different project from the strenuous fictions that won Coetzee his Nobel and two Man Booker prizes: still intense but, by his standards, a bit rambling yet oddly focused. Perhaps what we’re seeing is Coetzee having fun. There are certainly times in the novel...when I pictured the ghost of a smile behind the page.
—— Christopher Taylor , Financial Times[A] captivating tale.
—— Amy Hunt , Woman & HomeIt will keep you philosophically and morally on the edge of your seat throughout.
—— Maggie Gee , Guardian[It] is pleasingly baffling, suggesting hidden depths and multiple layers without ever quite revealing them.
—— Alex Preston , Observer, Book of the YearWhat stands out, and stays with you, is the fable-like aura which makes this feel like a children’s book for adults.
—— Theo Hobson , Tablet, Book of the YearCoetzee doesn’t want to be understood, or explained. He wants, merely, to be read. The Schooldays of Jesus is, indeed, very readable.
—— John Sutherland , The TimesThe prose is limpid, the plot simple, the style hypnotic, but what it all means I wouldn’t like to say.
—— Simon Shaw , Mail on Sunday
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