Disgrace
by J.M. Coetzee
Post-apartheid. Nobody knows how to live in it yet.
you want the most uncomfortable and honest account of what came after liberation
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A Cape Town professor loses his position after an affair with a student and retreats to his daughter's farm in the Eastern Cape. A violent attack transforms both their lives. Coetzee refuses to make anyone entirely sympathetic or entirely guilty. The novel is a dispatch from inside the specific discomfort of a society trying to redistribute power without anyone knowing the rules — where every relationship carries the weight of history and nobody knows how to be innocent. Won the Booker Prize. Still the most unsettling novel written about post-apartheid South Africa.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- South Africa • Southern Africa
- Voice
- Written by a South African author
- Themes
- After Empire
