Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee

A fallen professor confronts a changed South Africa

Very Good Condition - Light cover scuffing, minor corner/edge wear and browned page edges.

After an affair with a student ends his academic career, David Lurie leaves Cape Town to stay with his daughter Lucy on her farm. He expects distance to provide a refuge, but the rural world brings its own tensions and leaves him unable to rely on the authority he once assumed. A violent attack forces father and daughter to confront experiences they understand differently, exposing fault lines in their relationship and in the society around them. J. M. Coetzee's novel examines desire, responsibility, power and vulnerability in post-apartheid South Africa. Spare and unsettling, Disgrace follows a man whose loss of status is only the beginning of a deeper challenge to his view of himself.