Disgrace av J. M. Coetzee, 1999

SPRÅK: ENGELSKA

Disgrace is a 1999 novel by South African author J. M. Coetzee. It won the Booker Prize. The writer was also awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature four years after its publication (in 2003).

'After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced 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 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.'

ISBN-10: 0099284820.
ISBN-13: 9780099289524.