Disgrace
Disgrace (1999) is a novel by J. M. Coetzee, winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature; the book itself won the Booker Prize in 1999, the year in which it was published.
It tells the story of David Lurie, a professor of Romantic literature at a technical university in Cape Town, South Africa, twice-divorced and unsatisfied with his job. He is disgraced because of his having an affair with one of his students, and takes refuge on his daughter's farm in the Eastern Cape. Not long after he becoming comfortable with rural life, he is forced to come to terms with the aftermath of an attack on the farm in which he and his daughter are brutally assaulted.
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