by J. M. Coetzee · Penguin, 2000 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099284826
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«Disgrace» is the novel by South African writer J. M. Coetzee, published by Penguin in 2000 in paperback (224 pages, in English).
David Lurie, a professor in Cape Town, risks his career after a relationship with a student. Taking refuge at his daughter Lucy's farm, both suffer a violent attack that brings racial and family tensions to light. J. M. Coetzee explores shame, power and reconciliation in post-apartheid South Africa.
The novel won the Booker Prize in 1999 and J. M. Coetzee received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003. The BBC included it among the 100 novels that shaped our world.
For readers of literary fiction interested in contemporary South Africa, moral dilemmas and father-child relationships.
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.
