Just finished Scenes from a provincial life by J.M. Coetzee. A fictional auto biography. A collection of three books written by him. Almost pure narrative. Surely one of the oddest books I have ever read. I had never heard of him before, but he was awarded the Nobel prize in literature 2003.

Boyhood, set in post WW2 South Africa, with racial, anti semitic, and sexual undertones.

Youth, set in England, a man seemingly lost in his quest.

Summertime, a collection of memoirs, and interviews conducted with people who knew him, as though he had passed away. To the best of my knowledge, he is still alive and kicking in Australia.