Disgrace
By: J.M. Coetzee.
Edition: 1st printing
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780140296402
Copyright date: 1999
Subjects: Fathers and daughters -- South Africa -- Fiction; Veterinarians -- South Africa -- Fiction; Farm life -- South Africa -- Fiction; South Africa -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: At fifty-two, Professor David Lurie is divorced, filled with desire, but lacking in passion. When an affair with a student leaves him jobless, shunned by friends, and ridiculed by his ex-wife, he retreats to his daughter Lucy's smallholding. David's visit becomes an extended stay as he attempts to find meaning in his one remaining relationship. Instead, an incident of unimaginable terror and violence forces father and daughter to confrong their strained relationship--and the equally complicated racial complexities of the new South Africa.

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Notes: Originally published: Great Britain : Secker & Warburg, 1999.

Booker prize, 1999.