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Disgrace is a novel by J. M. Coetzee, published in 1999. It won the Booker Prize. The writer was also awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature four years after its publication.
Jan 1, 2001 · Set in post-apartheid South Africa, J. M. Coetzee’s searing novel tells the story of David Lurie, a twice divorced, 52-year-old professor of communications and Romantic Poetry at Cape Technical University. Lurie believes he has created a comfortable, if somewhat passionless, life for himself.
Frustrated by this unexpected moral attack, David rushes into the back of the house, finds Melanie’s mother and sister sitting on a bed, and kneels before them, putting his head to the floor in a display of repentance. Back in Cape Town, David discovers that his apartment has been broken into.
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Disgrace follows the life and thoughts of the fifty-two-year-old protagonist David Lurie as he’s forced to face himself and reckon with his feelings about women, sex, race, age, and power after his sexual affair with a young student leads to his downfall.
Nov 1, 2000 · Disgrace: A Novel. J. M. Coetzee. Penguin, Nov 1, 2000 - Fiction - 224 pages. The provocative Booker Prize winning novel from Nobel laureate, J.M. Coetzee. "Compulsively readable... A novel...
Jul 2, 2019 · J. M. Coetzee’s Booker Prize-winning novel Disgrace, set in post-apartheid South Africa, takes us into the disquieting mind of twice-divorced university teacher David Lurie as he loses his...
