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Disgrace
1999218 pagesModerate readSteady pace
★ Booker Prize, 1999
A disgraced professor in post-apartheid South Africa
After an affair with a student, David Lurie loses his post at a Cape Town university. He goes to stay with his daughter Lucy on her smallholding in the Eastern Cape, where a violent attack changes their lives. It won the 1999 Booker Prize, Coetzee's second, and was adapted as a 2008 film.
More about this book
Who
David Lurie and his daughter Lucy.
World
Cape Town and a farm in the Eastern Cape.
What makes it different
Coetzee was the first author to win the Booker Prize twice.
Feel
Bleak and tense.
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Further reading
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