Vergogna by J.M. Coetzee
A once-celebrated middle-aged university lecturer in Cape Town sees his life unravel after a scandalous affair with a student leads to disciplinary action and self-imposed exile to his daughter's isolated smallholding in the Eastern Cape; there, a brutal attack leaves his daughter physically and emotionally scarred and triggers a wrenching moral reckoning as she refuses to seek legal redress and chooses to stay on the land, while he drifts into humiliation and menial work, confronting questions of power, sexuality, responsibility, and the uneasy ethics of post-apartheid South Africa.
- Published
- 1999
- Nationality
- South African
- Length
- Short
- Pages
- 200-250
- Original Language
- English
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- Alternate Titles
- - Disgrace
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