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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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Disgrace, J. M. Coetzee
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- Released
- 2000
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- Title
- Disgrace
- Language
- English
- Authors
- J. M. Coetzee
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Released
- 2000
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 220
- ISBN10
- 0099289520
- ISBN13
- 9780099289524
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Family, Contemporary Fiction, Classics, Society, Sexuality & Intimacy, English Literature, Africa, Adapted for Film, Violence, Race, Racism, University, College, Struggle for Power, Present, Teachers, Rape, Thefts and Robberies, Farms, Homesteads, South Africa, Daughters, Unhappy Love, Apartheid, Booker Prize, Cape Town, South African Literature, University Novel
- First published
- 1999
- Original title
- Disgrace
- Rating
- 3.75 out of 5
- Description
- 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.