After years teaching Romantic poetry in Cape Town, David Lurie has an impulsive affair with a student.
The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressure to repent publicly, he resigns and retreats to his daughter Lucy's isolated smallholding. For a time, his daughter's influence and the natural rhythms of the farm promise to harmonise his discordant life. But the balance of power in the country is shifting. He and Lucy become victims of a savage and disturbing attack which brings into relief all the faultlines in their relationship.
'A great novel by one of the finest authors writing in the English language today' The Times
'At the frontier of world literature' Sunday Telegraph
**One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**
'A great novel by one of the finest authors writing in the English language today' The Times
'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
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About J. M. Coetzee
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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