by J. M. Coetzee · MONDADORI · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788439706076
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«Desgracia» is the novel by J. M. Coetzee, published by Mondadori in paperback (264 pages, in Spanish).
David Lurie, a university professor, risks his career over a relationship with a student and, refusing to apologize, leaves Cape Town. He takes refuge on his daughter Lucy's farm in post-apartheid South Africa, where an episode of violence forces him to question his convictions. A novel about desire, guilt, and a transforming South Africa.
The work was originally published in English as «Disgrace» in 1999 and won the Booker Prize. The Spanish translation is by Miguel Martínez Lage. Number 138 in the Literatura Mondadori collection.
Aimed at readers of contemporary fiction and those seeking an award-winning novel set in 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.
