Disgrace

Description:

At fifty-two, Professor David Lurie is divorced, filled with desire, but lacking in passion. An affair with one of his students leaves him jobless, shunned by his friends, and ridiculed by his ex-wife. He retreats to his daughter Lucy's isolated smallholding, where a brief visit becomes an extended stay as he tries to find meaning from the one remaining relationship. David attempts to relate to Lucy and to a society with new racial complexities are disrupted by an afternoon of violence that shakes all of his beliefs and threatens to destroy his daughter. In this wry, visceral, yet strangely tender novel, Coetzee once again tells "truths [that] cut to the bone" (The New York Times Book Review).

subjects: abortion,  euthanasia,  animal shelters,  agoraphobia,  Domestic fiction,  Farm life,  Farm life in fiction,  Fathers and daughters,  Fathers and daughters in fiction,  Fiction,  Fiction in Spanish,  Man Booker Prize Winner,  Political correctness,  Political correctness in fiction,  Politics and government,  South Africa in fiction,  Teacher-student relationships,  Teacher-student relationships in fiction,  Veterinarians,  Veterinarians in fiction,  award:man_booker_prize=1999,  rape,  Large type books,  South africa, fiction,  Fiction (fictional works by one author),  Veterinarians, fiction,  Fathers and daughters, fiction,  Chang pian xiao shuo,  Fiction, general,  Fiction, psychological,  Powieść południowo-afrykańska w języku angielskim,  Tłumaczenia polskie,  English literature

People: David Lurie,  Lucy Lurie,  Bev Shaw,  Petrus,  Pollux,  Melanie Isaacs

Places: South Africa,  Cape Town,  Eastern Cape,  nan fei

Times: 1994-,  xian dai