Disgrace

By J. M. Coetzee

Subjects: rape, Veterinarians in fiction, euthanasia, South africa, fiction, Politics and government, agoraphobia, animal shelters, Domestic fiction, Fathers and daughters in fiction, Farm life in fiction, Teacher-student relationships in fiction, Fiction, general, Fiction in Spanish, Tłumaczenia polskie, Political correctness, Fathers and daughters, abortion, Large type books, Farm life, Fathers and daughters, fiction, Fiction (fictional works by one author), Chang pian xiao shuo, Man Booker Prize Winner, South Africa in fiction, Veterinarians, fiction, Political correctness in fiction, Fiction, Powieść południowo-afrykańska w języku angielskim, Veterinarians, English literature, award:man_booker_prize=1999, Fiction, psychological, Teacher-student relationships

Description: At fifty-two, Professor David Lurie is divorced, filled with desire, but lacking in passion. An affair with one of his students leaves him jobless, shunned by his friends, and ridiculed by his ex-wife. He retreats to his daughter Lucy's isolated smallholding, where a brief visit becomes an extended stay as he tries to find meaning from the one remaining relationship. David attempts to relate to Lucy and to a society with new racial complexities are disrupted by an afternoon of violence that shakes all of his beliefs and threatens to destroy his daughter. In this wry, visceral, yet strangely tender novel, Coetzee once again tells "truths [that] cut to the bone" (The New York Times Book Review).