Disgrace
- 253
- Pages
- about 4.5 h
- Reading time
- Booker Prize
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About the book
Disgrace is a 1999 novel by South African author J. M. Coetzee. It won the Booker Prize. The writer was also awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature four years after its publication.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.6 across 236 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 61% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Rankings average of 7.8. That is how 7.8 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.3 | 26 | 11% |
| Hardcover | 7.6 | 210 | 89% |
Reader voices
The most-liked reviews on Hardcover (credited to their authors).
“This novel is set in post-Apartheid South Africa. The main character is David Lurie, a former professor of communications who has been forced from his job by his behavior toward one of his female students. He is condescending and seemingly unrepentant. I hated him. The…”
“About a Cape Town professor who has an affair with a student, gets booted off university and decides to stay for a while at his lesbian daughter's farm. There, he's present when the house gets trashed, they get robbed, he almost burns to death and…”
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