{"product_id":"disgrace-9780140296402","title":"Disgrace","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe provocative Booker Prize winning novel from Nobel laureate, \u003cb\u003eJ.M. Coetzee\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Compulsively readable... A novel that not only works its spell but makes it impossible for us to lay it aside once we've finished reading it.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt fifty-two, Professor David Lurie is divorced, filled with desire, but lacking in passion. When an affair with a student leaves him jobless, shunned by friends, and ridiculed by his ex-wife, he retreats to his daughter Lucy's smallholding. David's visit becomes an extended stay as he attempts to find meaning in his one remaining relationship. Instead, an incident of unimaginable terror and violence forces father and daughter to confront their strained relationship and the equallity complicated racial complexities of the new South Africa. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e2024 marks the 25th Anniversary of the publication of \u003ci\u003eDisgrace\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn in Cape Town, South Africa, on February 9, 1940, \u003cb\u003eJohn Michael Coetzee\u003c\/b\u003e studied first at Cape Town and later at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned a Ph.D. degree in literature. In 1972 he returned to South Africa and joined the faculty of the University of Cape Town. His works of fiction include \u003ci\u003eDusklands\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWaiting for the Barbarians\u003c\/i\u003e, which won South Africa's highest literary honor, the Central News Agency Literary Award, and the Life and Times of Michael K., for which Coetzee was awarded his first Booker Prize in 1983. He has also published a memoir, \u003ci\u003eBoyhood: Scenes From a Provincial Life\u003c\/i\u003e, and several essays collections. He has won many other literary prizes including the Lannan Award for Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize and \u003ci\u003eThe Irish Times\u003c\/i\u003e International Fiction Prize. In 1999 he again won Britain's prestigious Booker Prize for \u003ci\u003eDisgrace\u003c\/i\u003e, becoming the first author to win the award twice in its 31-year history. In 2003, Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50607134179602,"sku":"9780140296402","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_07f72a9d-17f8-47d6-8195-333edddf809a.jpg?v=1732304378","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/disgrace-9780140296402","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}