Nobel Laureate and two-time Booker Prize-winning author of "Disgrace" and "The Life and Times of Michael K," J. M. Coetzee reimagines Daniel Defoe's classic novel "Robinson Crusoe" in "Foe." Published as a Penguin Essential for the first time, J. M. Coetzee radically reinvents the story of Robinson Crusoe. In the early eighteenth century, Susan Barton finds herself adrift from a mutinous ship and cast ashore on a remote desert island. There, she finds shelter with its only other inhabitants: a man named Cruso and his tongueless slave, Friday. In time, she builds a life for herself as Cruso's companion and, eventually, his lover. At last, they are rescued by a passing ship, but only she and Friday survive the journey back to London. Determined to have her story told, she pursues the eminent man of letters Daniel Foe in the hope that he will relate her truthfully.