His first novel features interwoven novellas, one a 1760s colonial narrative of a man named Jacobus, an actual distant relative of this author, and the other detailing the State Department during the Vietnam War.  
In one of this author's novels, the death of stepson Pavel Isaev leads Fyodor Dostoyevsky to think of the Orpheus myth.  His first novel features interwoven novellas, one a 1760s colonial narrative of a man named Jacobus, an actual distant relative of this author, and the other detailing the State Department during the Vietnam War.  He wrote a work in which Susan Barton falls in love after being rescued by the title character along with the tongueless Friday. His protagonists include a college professor who sleeps with one of his students, David Lurie, and a titular hare-lipped gardener during the apartheid era, and his works include Foe and Waiting for the Barbarians.  FTP, name this author of Disgrace and Life and Times of Michael K.
In one of this author's novels, the death of stepson Pavel Isaev leads Fyodor Dostoyevsky to think of the Orpheus myth.  
John Maxwell {Coetzee} (1) [AH]