by J. M. Coetzee · Random House · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099540984
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«Disgrace» is the novel by J. M. Coetzee, published by Random House in paperback (234 pages, in English).
David Lurie, a professor in Cape Town, becomes embroiled in a scandal after a relationship with a student. He resigns and takes refuge on his daughter Lucy's farm, where a violent attack confronts him with the racial tensions of post-apartheid South Africa. It explores shame, power, and the relationship between humans and animals.
Winner of the Booker Prize in 1999. This Vintage Classics edition, published in 2010, includes a reading guide.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction and South African fiction, especially those interested in award-winning works.
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.
