Disgrace - A Novel With a Strange Plot Set by JM Coetzee

The Nobel Prize winner J. M. Coetzee had become the first writer to get the Man Booker Prize twice when he got it for his novel 'disgrace'. The novel has a simple and a linear plot. It essentially starts when David Lurie, protagonist of the novel, enters into a corporeal act with one of his students.Caught in a fix, the student registers a complaint about sexual harassment against him. In spite of strong suggestions by his colleagues to deny and defend the allegations of having sex with the girl, Professor David Lurie accepts the allegations. Thus in becoming honest to his acts, he invites the obvious ouster from the job. The life of disgrace starts from this point.He goes to live with his daughter, Lucy. After being disgraced, and while living at the farm owned by Lucy, he wakes up into another world. He encounters the world where people have to sacrifice most of their legitimate rights. He met the people who have to compromise on seemingly odd issues.South Africaof David a
nd Lucy is newly liberated from the clutches of apartheid. The old trees are razed out; but the plants of new order are yet to be rooted in. During this turmoil he meets Bev, a friend of Lucy who runs a veterinary hospital. Before he knows more about why the lives of terminally ill dogs are ended by a fatal but pain relieving injection given by Bev, some miscreants attack the farm of Lucy. She is gang raped and her dogs are shot dead. House is looted and David's car is stolen.He lodges complains for his car; but Lucy denies registering complaint against those who have raped her. It is the cost of living on the land: that is what she believes. When her father tells her to "Sell up", she refuses. Here David learns a chapter in parenthood. There comes a date when children start living without help of their biblical cord, the parental assistance.Lucy is more stable in her life, remaining attached with her own piece of land. In a way she responds more logically to the challenges
of life, in comparison of her desperate father who has frequented to prostitutes searching for the meaning of life. He accepts the reality in a strange way. She decides to bear a child of the neo-oppressor, the rapists. It reveals how a woman can get adjusted to a changed environment.   

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