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“This is Coetzee at his best, in our opinion. A relatively early, much celebrated work from 'New South African' post-apartheid literature, the undertones of violence and abuse of privilege lead a white man and hid author down a dark path in his later years. Unintended consequences are rife. The undertones of violence become overtones, and come back to haunt the protagonist repeatedly. Symbolic of the country's growing disillusionment with stagnant inequality in a tense racial landscape, it is a novel of exceptional nuance, written in a matter-of fact style reminiscent of Hemingway or Camus. Not a light read, but on top of everything else it is a gripping story!”
— John • AfroStory
After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours, he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressure to repent publicly, he resigns and retreats to his daughter Lucy's isolated smallholding.
For a time, his daughter's influence and the natural rhythms of the farm promise to harmonise his discordant life. But the balance of power in the country is shifting. He and Lucy become victims of a savage and disturbing attack which brings into relief all the faultlines in their relationship.
By the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and twice winner of the Booker Prize.
J.M. Coetzee’s work includes Waiting for the Barbarians, Life & Times of Michael K, Boyhood, Youth, Disgrace, Summertime, The Childhood of Jesus and, most recently, The Schooldays of Jesus. He was the first author to win the Booker Prize twice and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003.