《夏日》内容简介

　　“坏日子越来越多，星号像苍蝇成灾一样繁殖。”

　　《夏日》是库切的自传三部曲之三，一部从他人视角出发的奇特自传。

　　本书的故事发生在《男孩》《青春》之后，主人公库切已去世多年，一位年轻作家为他作传，采访了库切的亲人、同事、故交好友、昔日情人，并引用了库切私人日记的片段。在虚实交织、复杂迷离的叙事中，库切的中年生活轮廓渐渐清晰……他回到南非，求职、教书、修缮房屋、赡养父亲、继续写作，在失意中年生活的夹缝之中，我们得以窥见库切清醒而痛苦的灵魂。

　　作者简介

　　J.M.库切，南非著名小说家，被评论界认为是当代南非最重要的作家之一。曾两度获得布克奖，并于2003年获得诺贝尔文学奖。1940年出生于南非开普敦，现居澳大利亚。

A brief introduction to Summer
"The bad days are multiplying and the asterisks are multiplying like flies."
Summer Day is the third of Coetzee's three-part autobiography, a curious autobiography from the perspective of others.
Set long after the death of Coetzee, this book is a biography by a young writer who interviews relatives, colleagues, old friends, former lovers and quotes from Coetzee's private diaries. In the complicated and blurred narrative, Coetzee's middle-aged life outline is gradually clear... He returned to South Africa to find work, teach, repair houses, support his father, continue to write, and in the middle of a frustrated life, we get a glimpse of Coetzee's sober and painful soul.
About the author
J.M. Coetzee is a famous South African novelist who is considered by critics to be one of the most important contemporary South African writers. He won the Booker Prize twice and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003. Born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1940, he now lives in Australia.