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Disgrace

Professor David Lurie has fallen into disgrace after an impulsive affair with a student. He retreats to an isolated property owned by his daughter Lucy. But the balance of power in South Africa is changing. He and Lucy become victims of a savage attack which brings into relief all the fault-lines in their relationship.

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  • "Professor David Lurie has fallen into disgrace after an impulsive affair with a student. He retreats to an isolated property owned by his daughter Lucy. But the balance of power in South Africa is changing. He and Lucy become victims of a savage attack which brings into relief all the fault-lines in their relationship."@en
  • "David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, is a scholar fallen into disgrace. After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, he has an impulsive affair with a student, and willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressure to repent publicly, he resigns and retreats to an isolated smallholding owned by his daughter."
  • "Een ontslagen universitair docent ondervindt aan den lijve hoezeer de raciale verhoudingen in Zuid-Afrika zijn gewijzigd."
  • "David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, is a scholar fallen into disgrace. After years teaching Romantic poetry, he has an impulsive affair with a student. Willing to admit guilt, but not to repent publicly, he resigns and retreats to an isolated smallholding owned by his daughter Lucy. But the balance of power in the country is shifting; he and Lucy become the victims of a savage and disturbing attack, which brings into relief all the fault-lines in their relationship."@en
  • "Set in post-apartheid Cape Town, Professor David Laurie attempts to relate to his daughter, Lucy, and to a society with new racial complexities. But that is disrupted by an afternoon of violence that changes him and his daughter in ways he could never have foreseen."@en
  • "Set in post-apartheid South Africa, this ... novel explores the downfall of one man and, through it, raises issues of moral complexity. -Back cover."
  • "A divorced, middle-aged professor finds himself increasingly unable to resist affairs with his female students. When discovered by the college authorities he is expected to apologise to save his job, but instead he refuses and resigns, retiring to live with his daughter on her remote farm."@en
  • "A white woman is gang-raped by blacks in post-apartheid South Africa. However, she understands such settling of scores is inevitable, given what whites did to blacks, and she keeps the baby."

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  • "Romans (teksten)"
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  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"

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  • "Disgrace"@en
  • "Disgrace"
  • "Disgrace a novel"@en

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