Disgrace

Contemporary Literature Literary Fiction

Pages: 224
Published: 2009
Language: English

After an affair with a student costs him his job and reputation, Professor David Lurie retreats to his daughter Lucy's isolated farm in post-apartheid South Africa. What begins as a temporary refuge becomes an extended stay as David grapples with his disgraced past and attempts to reconnect with Lucy amidst new societal complexities. An act of violence shatters their fragile peace, forcing David to confront his beliefs and the harsh realities of their world.

Prose complexity: 7/10

Melancholic Dark Thought-Provoking Complex

Redemption Arc Fish Out of Water Morally Grey

Contemporary Literature Literary Fiction

J. M. Coetzee

John Maxwell Coetzee FRSL OMG (born 9 February 1940) is a South African and Australian novelist, essayist, linguist, translator and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is one of the most critically acclaimed and decorated authors in the English language. He has won the Booker Prize (twice), the CNA Literary Award (thrice), the Jerusalem Prize, the Prix Femina étranger, and The Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and holds a number of other awards and honorary doctorates. [so...