Elizabeth Costello by J.M. Coetzee

• Biblioteca Demonstrativa de Brasilìa BDB, Brazil
• Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogota, Columbia
• Cork City Library, Ireland
• State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
• Hamilton-Wenham Public Library, Hamilton, USA

One of a new breed of intellectual nomads, her life has become a series of engagements in sterile conference rooms throughout the world - a private consciousness obliged to reveal itself to a curious public: the presentation of a major award at an American college where she is required to deliver a lecture; a sojourn as the writer- in- residence on a cruise liner during which she encounters a fellow guest lecturer, an African poet also employed to divert the passengers; a visit to her sister, a missionary in Africa, who is receiving an honorary degree, an occasion which both recognise as the final opportunity for effecting some form of reconciliation; and a disquieting appearance at a writers' conference in Amsterdam where she finds the subject of her talk unexpectedly amongst the audience.
She has made her life's work the study of other people yet now it is she who is the object of scrutiny. But, for her, what matters is the continuing search for a means of articulating her vision and the verdict of future generations.
Elizabeth Costello is a humane, moral, and uncompromising creation. It is a profound and delicate vision of literary celebrity, artistry and the private life of the mind.

JM Coetzee's work includes Waiting For The Barbarians, Life & Times of Michael K, Boyhood: Scenes From Provincial Life, Youth, and Disgrace which won the Booker Prize, making him the first author to have won it twice. In 2003 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature.