Disgrace
About this book
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).
Subjects
- abortion
- agoraphobia
- animal shelters
- award:man_booker_prize=1999
- chang pian xiao shuo
- domestic fiction
- english literature
- euthanasia
- farm life
- farm life in fiction
- fathers and daughters
- fathers and daughters, fiction
- fathers and daughters in fiction
- fiction
- fiction (fictional works by one author)
- fiction, general
- fiction in spanish
- fiction, psychological
- large type books
- man booker prize winner
- political correctness
- political correctness in fiction
- politics and government
- powieść południowo-afrykańska w języku angielskim
- race relations
- rape
- south africa, fiction
- south africa in fiction
- teacher-student relationships
- teacher-student relationships in fiction
- tłumaczenia polskie
- veterinarians
- veterinarians, fiction
- veterinarians in fiction