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Disgrace
Published 2 July 2019
ISBN 9781925773859
Format Paperback
Extent 240pp
AU Price $19.99
NZ Price $24.00

Disgrace

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2 July 2019
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Four modern classics by the great South African writer, J. M. Coetzee, re-released with stylish new covers and accompanied by introductions from some of Australia’s brightest writing talents.

J. M. Coetzee’s Booker Prize-winning novel Disgrace, set in post-apartheid South Africa, takes us into the disquieting mind of twice-divorced university teacher David Lurie as he loses his job and his honour after engaging in an ill-advised affair with a susceptible student.

When he retreats to his daughter’s farm, a brutal attack highlights their fractured relationship. Is it only through intense suffering and shame—his own as well as that of others—that David can begin to change, to understand his country and what it means to be human?

In Disgrace, this Nobel-Prize winning writer examines ideas of evil, violence, dignity and redemption in a country dominated by the power dynamics of race.
Published 2 July 2019
ISBN 9781925773859
Format Paperback
Extent 240pp
AU Price $19.99
NZ Price $24.00
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About the authors

J. M. Coetzee

J. M. Coetzee was the first author to win the Booker Prize twice and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003. His work includes Waiting for the Barbarians, Life and Times of Michael K, The Master of Petersburg, Disgrace and Diary of a Bad Year. He lives in Adelaide.
portrait photo of J. M. Coetzee

Eva Hornung - Introducer

Eva Hornung, formerly published as Eva Sallis, is an award-winning writer of literary fiction and criticism: her first novel, Hiam, won the Australian/Vogel Literary Award in 1997 and the Nita May Dobbie Award in 1999. Her novel The Marsh Birds won the Asher Literary Award 2005 and was shortlisted for the Age Book of the Year 2005, NSW Premier’s Literary Award and Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. Hornung’s acclaimed Dog Boy was shortlisted for numerous prizes and won the Prime Minister’s Literary Award in 2010. The Last Garden won the SA Premier’s Prize for Literature in 2018. She lives in rural South Australia.
portrait photo of Eva Hornung

Also by J. M. Coetzee

The Pole and Other Stories
Late Essays
Inner Workings
Stranger Shores
Summertime
Youth
Boyhood
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Rights for Disgrace

Rights held: ANZ