Disgrace
$21.50
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
2 July 2019
Summary
J. M. Coetzee’s Booker Prize-winning novel Disgrace, set in post-apartheid South Africa, takes us into the disquieting mind of twice-divorced university teacher David Lurie as he loses his job and his honour after engaging in an ill-advised affair with a susceptible student.
When he retreats to his daughter’s farm, a brutal attack highlights their fractured relationship. Is it only through intense suffering and shame—his own as well as that of others—that David can begin to c…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781925773859 |
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| ISBN-10: | 192577385X |
| Author: | J.M. Coetzee, Eva Hornung |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Text Publishing Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 2 July 2019 |
| Weight: | 238g |
| Dimensions: | 22mm x 129mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
‘Coetzee captures with appalling skill the white dilemma in South Africa.’
‘Coetzee captures with appalling skill the white dilemma in South Africa.’ * Daily Telegraph *
‘Disgrace explores the furthest reaches of what it means to be human; it is at the frontier of world literature.’ * Geoff Dyer, Sunday Telegraph *
‘A great novel by one of the finest authors writing in the English language today.’ * The Times *
‘Exhilarating…One of the best novelists alive.’ * Sunday Times *
‘A masterpiece…perhaps the best novel to carry off the Booker in a decade.’ * Independent *
‘Disgrace is the best novel Coetzee has written.’ * London Review of Books *
J.M. Coetzee
J. M. Coetzee (Author)
J. M. Coetzee was the first author to win the Booker Prize twice and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003. His work includes Waiting for the Barbarians, Life and Times of Michael K, The Master of Petersburg, Disgrace, and Diary of a Bad Year. He lives in Adelaide.
Eva Hornung (Introducer)
Eva Hornung, formerly published as Eva Sallis, is an award-winning writer of literary fiction and criticism. Her first novel, Hiam, won the Australian/Vogel Literary Award in 1997 and the Nita May Dobbie Award in 1999. Her novel The Marsh Birds won the Asher Literary Award 2005 and was shortlisted for the Age Book of the Year 2005, NSW Premier’s Literary Award, and Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. Hornung’s acclaimed Dog Boy was shortlisted for numerous prizes and won the Prime Minister’s Literary Award in 2010. The Last Garden won the SA Premier’s Prize for Literature in 2018. She lives in rural South Australia.
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