'Disgrace' by J.M. Coetzee

Join us to discuss Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee — Booker Prize winner (1999), and by an author who won the prize twice.

After years teaching Romantic poetry in Cape Town, David Lurie—middle-aged and twice divorced—has an impulsive affair with a student. Denounced and summoned before a committee, he admits guilt but refuses public repentance. He resigns and retreats to his daughter Lucy’s isolated smallholding.

For a time, farm life promises a kind of harmony. But as the country’s balance of power shifts, a brutal attack exposes the fault lines in their relationship—and forces difficult questions about power, responsibility, and survival.