Disgrace by JM Coetzee
This book flows like a river, there seems to be no deliberation in the lyrical and poetic prose of Coetzee. He writes in such a beautifully symphonic way that is like music. The entire book is centered around a professor called David Lurie. The story of Disgrace starts with the affair of David Lurie, the protagonist, with a student(Melanie). It is a one sided kind of thing and ends up in a mess, he losing his job and his respect. He decides to spend some time with his daughter in the countryside of South Africa. There he sees that life is quite slow and lacks purpose and even tries to make his daughter leave her farm and go to some city and find some work - he does not want her to waste her life like that. But she is adamant to live like that for her entire life. ***Spoilers from here*** Everyone near his daughter's farm is an African and their family is white; so there are certain racial tensions. He urges his daughter to not live alone like that, because it is quite dangerous a...
