Disgrace

A white woman is gang-raped by blacks in this novel on post-apartheid South Africa. But she understands such settling of scores is inevitable, given what whites did to blacks, and she keeps the baby. By the author of Waiting for the barbarians.

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"David Lurie, twice-divorced and dissatisfied with his job as an English professor in post-apartheid South Africa, finds his life falling apart. When he seduces one of his students, he is dismissed from his teaching position and takes refuge on his daughter Lucy's farm in the Eastern Cape. For a time, Lucy's influence and the natural rhythms of the farm promise to harmonise his discordant life. Yet the balance of power in the country is shifting and in the aftermath of a vicious attack on the farm, he is forced to come to terms with more than his disgrace."
"A white woman is gang-raped by blacks in this novel on post-apartheid South Africa. But she understands such settling of scores is inevitable, given what whites did to blacks, and she keeps the baby. By the author of Waiting for the barbarians."@en
"Afrique du Sud, peu après l'Apartheid. David Lurie, un professeur de poésie, est forcé de démissionner après avoir entretenu une relation avec l'une de ses étudiantes. Il s'installe alors chez sa fille dans une ferme isolée à l'extérieur des terres. Là où les blancs avaient pour habitude de diriger, leur présence est maintenant à peine tolérée. Jusqu'au jour où David subit une agression en étant le témoin impuissant du viol de sa fille. Il prend alors conscience de l'inversion des pouvoirs qui s'est opérée dans son pays et dans son rapport aux femmes."
"A divorced professor in post-apartheid South Africa is disgraced when he has an affair with a student and is compelled to re-locate to his daughter's remote farm."@en
"David Lurie, twice-divorced and dissatisfied with his job as an English professor in post-apartheid South Africa, finds his life falling apart. When he seduces one of his students, he is dismissed from his teaching position and takes refuge on his daughter Lucy's farm in the Eastern Cape. For a time, Lucy's influence and the natural rhythms of the farm promise to harmonize his discordant life. Yet the balance of power in the country is shifting and in the aftermath of a vicious attack on the farm, he is forced to come to terms with more than his disgrace alone."@en
"Als een vanwege een seksuele relatie met een studente in opspraak geraakte professor in Kaapstad intrekt bij zijn dochter die in het binnenland woont op een boerderij, hoopt hij hier weer evenwicht in zijn leven te kunnen brengen. Een zeer gewelddadige, traumatische ervaring zorgt er echter voor dat hun leven voor goed verandert."
"Feature film from Australia. Drama. In post-apartheid South Africa, an academic dismissed for seducing a student seeks refuge on his daughter's farm."
"Professor David Lurie is a man whose world is shattered when he is fired for seducing a college student. He finds peace at his estranged daughter's modest farm in South Africa until a horrific incident of terror and violence forces Lurie to confront his beliefs and the disturbing racial complexities of the new South Africa."@en
""Disgrace takes place in modern day, post-apartheid South Africa. David Lurie (John Malkovich), a twice-divorced professor at a Cape Town technical university, is fired from his job for a passionate but brief affair with a student who is ambivalent about his embraces. This "disgrace" causes him to retreat to his daughter Lucie's isolated farm in the east. Although they rarely see eye to eye, the tenative emotional truce between errant father and daughter soon gives way to a more powerful rural life ... until it is ripped apart by a traumatic and violent attack which forces them both to re-evaluate their beliefs"--Container."@en
""David Lurie, twice-divorced and dissatisfied with his job as an English professor in post-apartheid South Africa, finds his life falling apart. When he seduces one of his students, he is dismissed from his teaching position and takes refuge on his daughter Lucy's farm in the Eastern Cape. For a time, Lucy's influence and the natural rhythms of the farm promise to harmonise his discordant life. Yet the balance of power in the country is shifting and in the aftermath of a vicious attack on the farm, he is forced to come to terms with more than his disgrace alone"--Container."
""David Lurie, twice-divorced and dissatisfied with his job as an English professor in post-apartheid South Africa, finds his life falling apart. When he seduces one of his students, he is dismissed from his teaching position and takes refuge on his daughter Lucy's farm in the Eastern Cape. For a time, Lucy's influence and the natural rhythms of the farm promise to harmonise his discordant life. Yet the balance of power in the country is shifting and in the aftermath of a vicious attack on the farm, he is forced to come to terms with more than his disgrace alone"--Container."@en