num_pages: 265
description: Paul Rayment is on the threshold of a comfortable old age when a calamitous cycling accident results in the amputation of a leg. Humiliated, his body truncated, his life circumscribed, he turns away from his friends.He hires a nurse named Marijana, with whom he has a European childhood in common: hers in Croatia, his in France. Tactfully and efficiently she ministers to his needs. But his feelings for her, and for her handsome teenage son, are complicated by the sudden arrival on his doorstep of the celebrated Australian novelist Elizabeth Costello, who threatens to take over the direction of his life and the affairs of his heart.
language: English
title: Slow Man
titlecomplete: Slow Man
characters: Marijana Jokic, Elizabeth Costello, Paul Rayment
genres: Australia, Nobel Prize, Africa, South Africa, Literary Fiction, Novels, 21st Century, Literature, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 8856
places: Australia
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Booker Prize
category: Longlist, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Dublin Literary Award
category: Shortlist
publisher: Vintage Books