Disgrace (J.M. Coetzee)

Paperback in good condition. It won the Booker Prize. The writer was also awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature four years after its publication.

“The 1999 novel that predicted our (traumatic, relentlessly bleak) future”

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. He lives within his financial and emotional means. Though his position at the university has been reduced, he teaches his classes dutifully; and while age has diminished his attractiveness, weekly visits to a sex worker satisfy his needs. He considers himself happy. However, when Lurie seduces one of his students, he sets in motion a chain of events that will shatter his complacency and leave him utterly disgraced.

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