by J.M. Coetzee · DEBOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788497599443
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«Desgracia» is the novel by J.M. Coetzee, published by Debolsillo in paperback (272 pages, in Spanish).
David Lurie, a university professor, risks his career over a relationship with a student and, instead of apologizing, leaves Cape Town to take refuge on his daughter Lucy's farm. An episode of violence in rural South Africa forces him to confront a changing society and to reconsider his ideas about race, desire and morality.
Winner of the 1999 Booker Prize. Translation by Miguel Martínez-Lage. Contemporánea collection. J.M. Coetzee received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003.
For readers of literary and contemporary fiction, with an interest in post-apartheid South Africa and moral dilemmas; a common choice for book clubs.
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.
