num_pages: 220
description: Man Booker Prize Winner (1999)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 his 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.
language: English
title: Disgrace
titlecomplete: Disgrace
characters: Bev Shaw, Melanie Isaacs, Petrus, Lucy Lurie, David Lurie
genres: Fiction, South Africa, Literature, Classics, Novels, Contemporary, Nobel Prize, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Africa
ratings_count: 103171
places: Grahamstown, Cape Town, South Africa
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Commonwealth Writers' Prize
category: Best Book Overall, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: The Best of the Booker, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Dublin Literary Award
publisher: Vintage