Loved itthis is my favorite novel probably favorite novel of all times but I think it would be unfair to keep it
Disgrace (1999)
Others: Overwhelmingly positive At fifty-two, Professor David Lurie is divorced, filled with desire, but lacking in passion. An affair with one of his students leaves him jobless, shunned by his friends, and ridiculed by his ex-wife. He retreats to his daughter Lucy's isolated smallholding, where a brief visit becomes an extended stay as he tries to find meaning from the one remaining relationship. David attempts to relate to Lucy and to a society with new racial complexities are disrupted by an afternoon of violence that shakes all of his beliefs and threatens to destroy his daughter. In this wry, visceral, yet strangely tender novel, Coetzee once again tells "truths [that] cut to the bone" (The New York Times Book Review).
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Loved it
Loved itAbsolutely dark and devastating but a miracle of the craft it seems could see is able to strip off the black and white pretense of things no pun intended and dive right into the heart of contradiction and ambiguity. The writing is terrific and coatsy's sensibility is so sophisticated never have I read something so horrible and enjoyed myself so much.