{"product_id":"disgrace-booker-prize-winner-1999","title":"Disgrace: booker prize winner 1999 by J.M. Coetzee","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"46\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"46\"\u003eBook Summary –\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"48\" data-end=\"897\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"48\" data-end=\"58\"\u003eDisgrace\u003c\/em\u003e is a powerful and unsettling novel set in post-apartheid South Africa, exploring themes of power, redemption, and societal transformation. The story follows David Lurie, a middle-aged professor of English at a Cape Town university who is forced to resign after an affair with a student. Disgraced and directionless, he retreats to the rural Eastern Cape to live with his daughter, Lucy. There, their lives are disrupted by a violent attack that forces both characters to confront questions of guilt, justice, and personal change in a country undergoing its own complex reckoning with the past. Through sparse, elegant prose and emotionally charged scenes, Coetzee examines the intersections of race, gender, power, and the burdens of history. \u003cem data-start=\"802\" data-end=\"812\"\u003eDisgrace\u003c\/em\u003e won the 1999 Booker Prize and is widely regarded as one of Coetzee's greatest works.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"899\" data-end=\"935\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"899\" data-end=\"935\"\u003eAbout the Author –\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"937\" data-end=\"1720\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003eJ.M. Coetzee is a South African-born novelist, essayist, and translator, acclaimed for his intellectually rigorous and morally probing fiction. Born in 1940 in Cape Town, Coetzee has received numerous international awards, including the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003 and the Booker Prize twice—first for \u003cem data-start=\"1245\" data-end=\"1272\"\u003eLife \u0026amp; Times of Michael K\u003c\/em\u003e in 1983 and again for \u003cem data-start=\"1295\" data-end=\"1305\"\u003eDisgrace\u003c\/em\u003e in 1999. His writing often explores themes of colonialism, identity, morality, and human suffering, marked by a restrained yet powerful style. Coetzee has also worked as an academic, and his philosophical background informs much of his fiction. He later became an Australian citizen and resides in Adelaide. Coetzee is considered one of the most important literary voices of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Best of used books","offers":[{"title":"Used","offer_id":44276697432321,"sku":"2G478XCCI-Used","price":150.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0421\/4299\/0495\/products\/J.M.Coetzee.jpg?v=1628078844","url":"https:\/\/bestofusedbooks.com\/products\/disgrace-booker-prize-winner-1999","provider":"Best Of Used Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}