The novel that 2003 Nobel Prize winning author - and twice-winner of the Booker Prize - J.M. Coetzee described as "a pleasure to read"!
(Full review below...)
Among John Coetzee's awards are the Booker Prize (twice), the Nobel prize in Literature, the CNA Literary Award (three times), The Irish Times International Fiction Prize, the prix femina étranger, and The Jerusalem Prize. He is one of the most critically acclaimed novelists written in English. And he enjoyed The Anthropologist!
"I read it with pleasure and amusement. Your hero's secretary's son is a superb creation, and if what happens at the end is the second coming, then that is exactly how the second coming ought to occur, or so it seems to me."
"It contains some wickedly clever characterisation."
Jon has written over twenty books. As an American who writes in English but lives in French-speaking Switzerland, many of his books were popular in translation before being published by Huge Jam in English. For more about the author and his unique vision of the universe, please visit www.jonfergusonbooks. com.
"Jon Ferguson’s The Anthropologist is splendid anthropology and a beautifully crafted novel. Both disciplines are blended in the creation of Professor Leonard Fuller, the anthropologist of the title. Fuller is reminiscent of the narrator of Joseph Heller’s Something Happened. Regarding life and the world through an ironic glass—painfully cynical but never less than acutely honest. Laugh-out-loud funny. Skip an afternoon latte and buy the damn thing…" M.C. Gardener
"An original look at humans, and anthropology, and the second coming. Universal questions are asked, but not answered, resulting in a text that mixes metaphysics and comedy. Intriguing, and a lot of fun too."
"I read it with pleasure and amusement. Your hero's secretary's son is a superb creation, and if what happens at the end is the second coming, then that is exactly how the second coming ought to occur, or so it seems to me." John Coetzee,