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Disgrace

J. M. Coetzee

1

award won

16

score

#227 of 8,085 books · #111 in Fiction

Won the Booker Prize (1999). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 1 other award.

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.

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Publisher
Secker & Warburg
ISBN-13
9780099289524
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Post-apartheid South AfricaRacial violence and retributionGuilt and redemption

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