‘Freed from literary convention, Mr Coetzee writes not to provide answers, but to ask great questions.’

‘For all the sharpness and sorrow of Coetzee’s writing, there is something grandly calming about his style: his sentences seem to give off light, and not in a hard dazzle, but in the glow of a child’s night-light.’

‘A major force in contemporary writing. A master, in fact. ’