Disgrace by J M Coetzee
David Lurie, a middle-aged divorcee lecturing at the Technical University of Cape Town, has an impulsive affair with a student. When the passion sours and he is denounced, he resigns and retreats to his daughter Lucy's isolated smallholding. For a time, he finds calm in the routine of farm life, but the balance of power in the country is shifting. When he and Lucy become victims of a savage and disturbing attack, all the faultlines in their relationship are revealed.
A masterpiece..perhaps the best novel to carry off the Booker in a decade -- Boyd Tonkin Independent Coetzee captures with appalling skill the white dilemma in South Africa Daily Telegraph Disgrace explores the furthest reaches of what it means to be human; it is at the frontier of world literature -- Geoff Dyer Sunday Telegraph Exhilarating... One of the best novelists alive Sunday Times
J.M. Coetzee's work includes Waiting For the Barbarians, Life & Times of Michael K, Boyhood, Youth, Disgrace and Diary of a Bad Year. He was the first author to win the Booker Prize twice and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099563129 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099563126 |
| Title | Disgrace |
| Author | J M Coetzee |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2011-08-04 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
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