Disgrace

Name: Disgrace
Author: J.M. Coetzee

by J.M. Coetzee

Disgraced professor's moral degradation in post-apartheid South Africa

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J.M. Coetzee

South African novelist who has twice won the Booker Prize and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003. His austere, elliptical fiction confronts colonialism, shame, and the limits of empathy. He is widely regarded as the greatest living novelist writing in English.

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