Book Number 67: Waiting for the Barbarians, by J.M. Coetzee
Inscription:
To Stephen Harper,
Prime Minister of Canada,
A cautionary tale,
From a Canadian writer,
With best wishes,
Yann Martel
Letter:
The Right Honourable Stephen Harper
Prime Minister of Canada
80 Wellington Street
Ottawa ON K1A 0A2
Dear Mr. Harper,
A few letters ago—in the 64th, to be precise, concerning Carole Mortimer’s novel The Virgin Secretary’s Impossible Boss—I mentioned in passing that J.M. Coetzee was my favourite living writer. [...]
