Disgrace A BBC Radio 4 Good Read — John Maxwell Coetzee

After years teaching Romantic poetry in Cape Town David Lurie 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 A great novel by one of the finest authors writing in the English language today The Times At the frontier of world literature Sunday Telegraph One of the BBC s 100 Novels That Shaped Our World Tanıtım Bülteninden