Disgrace

by J. M. Coetzee

In South Africa after apartheid, a middle-aged professor of Romantic poetry sees his career crumble as the world turns more to technology than to literature. After a series of ever more degrading misadventures, including a charge of sexual harassment, he ends up on his daughter's farm. There, after further disgraces--his daughter is raped and he is attacked and disfigured--he is able to reconcile himself to his stunted life by caring for animals and, finally, feeling a kind of kinship with them. DISGRACE won the Booker Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999.

Editions of Disgrace

ISBN 9780436204890	Binding/Format Book	Publisher Secker & Warburg	Date 1999	Price £1.79	Very Good
ISBN 9780786224791	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Thorndike Pr	Date 2000	Price None Available
ISBN 9780143143451	Binding/Format Compact Disc	Publisher Penguin Group USA	Date 2008	Price $21.82	NEW
ISBN 9780143036371	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Penguin Group USA	Date 2005	Price $2.04	Very good
ISBN 9780670887316	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher Penguin USA	Date 1999	Price $3.50	Good
ISBN 9780140296402	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Penguin Group USA	Date 2000	Price $2.00

Publisher Notes

Set between Cape Town and a remote farm in the Eastern Cape, this spare, unflinching novel of the modern South Africa traces the relationship between a farmer and his daughter. Reprint.

Media Reviews

"[A] sober, searing and even cynical little book....DISGRACE is Coetzee's first book to deal explicitly with post-apartheid South Africa, and the picture it paints is a cheerless one that will comfort no one, no matter what race, nationality or viewpoint....There is something fundamentally cryptic and unsummarizable about DISGRACE, but I read it as an almost metaphysical journey from this Romantic variety of love to the harsher, leaner strain David eventually learns from life on and around Lucy's farm.