Disgrace: Vintage 21 - Tapa blanda

"A masterpiece...perhaps the best novel to carry off the Booker in a decade" (Boyd Tonkin Independent)

"Coetzee captures with appalling skill the white dilemma in South Africa" (Daily Telegraph)

"Disgrace explores the furthest reaches of what it means to be human; it is at the frontier of world literature" (Geoff Dyer Sunday Telegraph)

"Exhilarating... One of the best novelists alive" (Sunday Times)

David Lurie, a middle-aged divorcee lecturing at the Technical University of Cape Town, has an impulsive affair with a student. When the passion sours and he is denounced, he resigns and retreats to his daughter Lucy's isolated smallholding. For a time, he finds calm in the routine of farm life, but the balance of power in the country is shifting. When he and Lucy become victims of a savage and disturbing attack, all the faultlines in their relationship are revealed.