Description
Cast adrift in the early eighteenth century, Susan Barton reaches a remote desert island where she encounters the solitary Cruso and his tongueless slave, Friday—an uneasy domestic arrangement that slowly becomes something more intimate and morally charged. When rescue finally comes, Barton returns to London determined to have her account recorded, seeking the help of the celebrated writer Daniel Foe to shape her memories into a public truth. But as Cruso is gone and Friday cannot speak, Barton discovers how easily narrative can be controlled, edited, and made to serve someone else’s design. In J. M. Coetzee’s spare, incisive style, the novel turns on the power—and peril—of storytelling itself, probing themes of authorship, voice, colonial silence, and the fragile line between fact and invention.
Available Editions
paperback
Penguin Books, Limited
Published Jan 1, 2015
124 pages
ISBN: 9780241975442
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Details
First Published
1986
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Foe by J M Coetzee.