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English
Text Publishing Company
02 July 2019
The irony does not escape him: that the one who comes to teach learns the keenest of lessons, while those who come to learn learn nothing.

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 change, to understand his country and what it means to be human?

In Disgrace, this Nobel-Prize winning writer examines ideas of evil, violence, dignity and redemption in a country dominated by the power dynamics of race.
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Imprint:   Text Publishing Company
Country of Publication:   Australia
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 16mm
Weight:   184g
ISBN:   9781925773859
ISBN 10:   192577385X
Pages:   220
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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.

Reviews for Disgrace

'Disgrace is the best novel Coetzee has written.' * London Review of Books * 'A masterpiece...perhaps the best novel to carry off the Booker in a decade.' * Independent * 'Exhilarating...One of the best novelists alive.' * Sunday Times * 'A great novel by one of the finest authors writing in the English language today.' * The Times * 'Disgrace explores the furthest reaches of what it means to be human; it is at the frontier of world literature.' * Geoff Dyer, Sunday Telegraph * 'Coetzee captures with appalling skill the white dilemma in South Africa.' * Daily Telegraph *


  • Long-listed for Best Designed Series, Australian Book Design Awards 2020 (Australia)
  • Short-listed for Best Designed Series, Australian Book Design Awards 2020 (Australia)
  • Winner of Booker Prize 1999 (UK)

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