Coetzee's Summertime

I picked up J.M. Coetzee's Summertime with some trepidation. Other than Foe, he is an author with whom I struggle. His writing is so foreign to me. On top of that it tends to be dry and dense. This book, however, was quite engaging. I found it to be humorous and quite clever. I loved the structure of telling the story of South Africa through the eyes of colonial guilt and using that as a metaphor for personal perception. I feel like I finally saw what others see in his work. Definite thumbs up on this one!