In This Autobiographical Novel, A Young English Biographer Is Researching A Book About The Late South African Writer John Coetzee, Focusing On Coetzee In His 30s, At A Time When He Was Living In A Rundown Cottage In The Cape Town Suburbs With His Widowed Father--a Time, The Biographer Is Convinced, When Coetzee Was Finding Himself As A Writer. Notebooks 1972-75 -- Julia -- Margot -- Adriana -- Martin -- Sophie -- Notebooks: Undated Fragments. J.m. Coetzee.