An ingenious new work of fiction from the Nobel Prizea winning author of "Disgrace" J . M. Coetzee once again breaks literary ground with "Diary of a Bad Year," a book that is, in the words of its protagonist, aa response to the present in which I find myself.a Aging author Senor C has been commissioned to write a series of essays entitled aStrong Opinions, a of which he has many. After hiring a beautiful young typist named Anya, the two embark on a relationship that will have a profound impact on them botha especially when Alan, Anyaas no-good boyfriend, develops designs on Senor Cas bank account. Told in these three voices simultaneously, Coetzee has created any entirely new way of telling a story, and nothing less than an ainvolving, argumentative, moving novela ("The New Yorker").