Disgrace
A BBC Radio 4 Good Read
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**A BBC RADIO 4 GOOD READ**
'A great novel by one of the finest authors writing in the English language today' The Times
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.
**A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BIG JUBILEE READ PICK**
**One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**
Kundrecensioner
Breath-taking
In this breath-taking novel that takes place in a new and role-changing, post-apartheid South Africa, J. M. Coetzee will make you hunger with curiosity for what comes next. A disgraced professor obssessed with women, a fearless and coldly pragmatic daughter, a employee who becomes the employeer, a professional dog-killer — these are only some of the interesting characters you will be introduced to in this amazing short story that earned Coetzee the Nobel Prize in literature in 2003. Disgrace is a must-read for all of those wanting to learn something about human interaction in the new South Africa.