Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee #literature HardbackPublication: 6 Nov 2006

HardbackPublication: 6 Nov 2006

we see when we look back

And things don't become any easier when she falls hard for the beautiful and emotionally unavailable Christian Hemmes

this guidebook to Germany

The tales they told about her – including a twenty-four-hour sex competition with a prostitute – have taken deep root in the Western imagination

Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee #literature HardbackPublication: 6 Nov 2006A BBC RADIO 4 GOOD READ 'A great novel by one of the finest authors writing in the English language today' The Times After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressure to repent publicly, he resigns and