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Key ideas from the book
- An affair has serious consequences for David Lurie’s professional and personal life.
- David’s stay with his daughter brings their strained relationship to the foreground.
- A violent incident forces father and daughter to confront difficult realities.
- The novel engages with racial complexities in the new South Africa.
- Readers of literary fiction can explore how personal relationships unfold amid wider social change.
About Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
David Lurie, a fifty-two-year-old professor, loses his job after an affair with a student. He leaves the life he knows and goes to stay with his daughter Lucy at her smallholding, where he tries to make sense of the relationship between them.
A violent incident changes the course of their stay and brings their strained bond into sharper focus. Set against the complexities of the new South Africa, Coetzee’s novel examines personal consequences, family ties and the difficult conditions shaping life in the country. It will interest readers of literary fiction and South African literature.
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