In his first work of fiction since his Nobel Prize-winning "Disgrace," this "New York Times" Notable Book and bestseller is the story of a woman's life as a mother, sister, lover, and writer that is also a profound and haunting meditation on the nature of storytelling.

In his first work of fiction since his Nobel Prize-winning "Disgrace," this "New York Times" Notable Book and bestseller is the story of a woman's life as a mother, sister, lover, and writer that is also a profound and haunting meditation on the nature of storytelling.

****J.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018.***Since 1982, J. M. Coetzee has been dazzling the literary world. After eight novels that have won, among other awards, two Booker Prizes, and most recently, the Nobel Prize, Coetzee has once again crafted an unusual and deeply affecting tale. Told through an ingenious series of formal addresses, Elizabeth Costello * is, on the surface, the story of a woman's life as mother, sister, lover, and writer. Yet it is also a profound and haunting meditation on the nature of storytelling.