Disgrace is a mini-opera without music by a writer at the top of his form.' -Time 'Mr. Coetzee, in prose lean yet simmering with feeling, has indeed achieved a lasting work: a novel as haunting and powerful as Albert Camus's The Stranger.' - The Wall Street Journal 'A tough, sad, stunning novel.' -Baltimore Sun, 'Disgrace is not a hard or obscure book - it is, among other things, compulsively readable - but what it may well be is an authentically spiritual document, a lament for the soul of a disgraced century.' -The New Yorker 'A subtly brilliant commentary on the nature and balance of power in his homeland.

Coetzee, in prose lean yet simmering with feeling, has indeed achieved a lasting work: a novel as haunting and powerful as Albert Camus's The Stranger.' - The Wall Street Journal 'A tough, sad, stunning novel.' - Baltimore Sun, 'Disgrace is not a hard or obscure book - it is, among other things, compulsively readable - but what it may well be is an authentically spiritual document, a lament for the soul of a disgraced century.' -The New Yorker 'A subtly brilliant commentary on the nature and balance of power in his homeland.

Disgrace is a mini-opera without music by a writer at the top of his form.' - Time 'Mr. Coetzee, in prose lean yet simmering with feeling, has indeed achieved a lasting work: a novel as haunting and powerful as Albert Camus's The Stranger.' Â- The Wall Street Journal 'A tough, sad, stunning novel.' Â- Baltimore Sun, 'Disgrace is not a hard or obscure book - it is, among other things, compulsively readable - but what it may well be is an authentically spiritual document, a lament for the soul of a disgraced century.' - The New Yorker 'A subtly brilliant commentary on the nature and balance of power in his homeland.

Disgrace is a mini-opera without music by a writer at the top of his form.' Â- Time 'Mr. 'Disgrace is not a hard or obscure book Â- it is, among other things, compulsively readable Â- but what it may well be is an authentically spiritual document, a lament for the soul of a disgraced century.' Â- The New Yorker 'A subtly brilliant commentary on the nature and balance of power in his homelandâ€¦.

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