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This is one of the most interesting books I have read in a long time. The characters are believable and contemporary,issues and points of view are well shaped and it has educated me in the politics of South Africa more clearly than other sources. I enjoyed meeting a new author, I will definetly read more of Coetze!

This book won the Booker Prize in 1999. The following is from Amazon.com: Disgrace is almost willfully plain. Yet it possesses its own lean, heartbreaking lyricism, most of all in its descriptions of unwanted animals. At the start of the novel, David tells his student that poetry either speaks instantly to the reader--"a flash of revelation and a flash of response"--or not at all. Coetzee's book speaks differently, its layers and sadnesses endlessly unfolding. --Kerry Fried

beautifully written book, raising serious social and psychological questions--but not for the faint of heart; some passages are very disturbing