Journal D'Une Ann'e Noire, Paperback Book, By: J M

J.C. renowned Australian author, writes a series of essays on terrorism, Guantanamo, the secret services, Al-Qada, in which he suggests that the state is a mafia. To type his manuscript, he hires his young Filipino neighbor. The latter's companion, a financial consultant for a large company, decides to take advantage of this relationship. Coetzee as a guru, Coetzee as a witness to his time, a virtuoso novelist, a music lover, a reader, a disguised diarist, it is all these facets that one discerns in the Diary of a black year. Florence Noiville, LeMonde