January Book Club: Disgrace by JM Coetzee

Hello all! Sorry I have been MIA, but the end of 2008 was a busy time for me and I had to take a much needed BREAK! . Last month the majority of folks voted for the novel Disgrace by Nobel Prize Winner J.M Coetzee, recommended by our dear member Johan. Sounds like this book is going to be a juicy tale mixed with a little tradegy as usual.

Plot Summary:

Disgrace is the story of a South African professor of English descent who loses everything: his reputation, his job, his peace of mind, his good looks, his dreams of artistic success, and finally even his ability to protect his cherished daughter.The novel tells the story of David Lurie, twice-divorced and dissatisfied with his job as a Communications professor in post-apartheid South Africa. He is dismissed from his teaching position, after which he takes refuge on his daughter's farm in the Eastern Cape. For a time, his daughter's influence and natural rhythms of the farm promise to harmonise his discordant life. But the balance of power in the country is shifting. Shortly after becoming comfortable with rural life, he is forced to come to terms with the aftermath of an attack on the farm in which his daughter is raped and impregnated and he is violently assaulted. In Disgrace, those who feel disgraced are also those who are punished.