by J. M. Coetzee · FisicalBook · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422687252
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«Desgracia» is the novel by South African writer J. M. Coetzee, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardback (271 pages, in Spanish).
David Lurie, a professor in Cape Town, sees his life fall apart after a scandal with a student and takes refuge on his daughter's farm in the Eastern Cape. There, violence and the new rules of post-apartheid South Africa confront him with his own decline and with questions about guilt, power and redemption.
Translation by Miguel Martínez-Lage. Novel winner of the 1999 Booker Prize; original title: «Disgrace».
For readers of literary fiction interested in contemporary drama and post-apartheid South Africa.
John Maxwell Coetzee AC FRSL OMG is a South African and Australian novelist, essayist, linguist, and translator. The recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature, Coetzee is one of the most critically acclaimed and decorated authors in the English language. He has won the Booker Prize (twice), the CNA Literary Award (thrice), the Jerusalem Prize, the Prix Femina étranger, and The Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and holds a number of other awards and honorary doctorates.
