The Nobel laureate and twice Booker Prize-winning author of "Disgrace" and "The Life and Times of Michael K," J. M. Coetzee, reinvents Daniel Defoe's classic novel "Robinson Crusoe" in "Foe." With an act of stunning imagination, J. M. Coetzee radically reshapes the story of Robinson Crusoe.

In the early eighteenth century, Susan Barton finds herself cast away from a ship that has undergone a mutiny and lands on a remote desert island. There, she finds refuge with its only other inhabitants: a man named Cruso and his mute slave, Friday. Over time, she builds a life for herself as Cruso's companion and, eventually, his lover. When they are finally rescued by a passing ship, only she and Friday survive the return to London.

Determined to tell her story, she seeks the eminent man of letters, Daniel Foe, hoping he will faithfully convey her memories to the world. But with Cruso dead, Friday unable to speak, and Foe intending to reshape her narrative, Barton struggles to hold onto the past, only to fall prey to the allure of storytelling.

Dangerous, elegant, and unexpectedly moving, "Foe" remains one of the most exceptionally composed works from this preeminent author.

"A small miracle of a book... with wonderful complexity and overwhelming power" - Washington Post

"An extraordinary novel" - The New York Times

The South African author J. M. Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003 and was the first author to win the Booker Prize twice for his novels "Disgrace" and "The Life and Times of Michael K." His novel set during the apartheid era in South Africa, "Age of Iron," which won the Sunday Express Book of the Year award, is also available in a Penguin paperback edition.

Pages: 160, Dimensions: 12.9x12.9cm