by J. M. Coetzee · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099289524
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Disgrace is a novel by South African author J.M. Coetzee, published in 1999. The story follows David Lurie, a university professor in Cape Town who, after a sexual scandal, moves to his daughter's farm in the Eastern Cape. There, he will face rural violence and the complex racial relations of post-apartheid South Africa. The novel explores themes such as shame, power, redemption, and the human condition in a context of social and political change.
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.
