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A los cincuenta y dos años, David Lurie tiene poco de lo que enorgullecerse. Con dos divorcios a sus espaldas, apaciguar el deseo es su única aspiración sus clases en la universidad son un mero trámite para él y para los estudiantes. Cuando se destapa su relación con una alumna, David, en un acto de soberbia, preferirá renunciar a su puesto antes que disculparse en público. Rechazado por todos, abandona Ciudad del Cabo y va a visitar la granja de su hija Lucy. Allí, en una sociedad donde los códigos de comportamiento, sean de blancos o de negros, han cambiado donde el idioma es una herramienta viciada que no sirve a este mundo naciente, David verá hacerse añicos todas sus creencias en una tarde de violencia implacable. Una historia profunda, extraordinaria, que por momentos atenaza el corazón, y es siempre, hasta el final, subyugante: Desgracia, que obtuvo el prestigioso premio Booker, no dejará indiferente al lector. Llevada a la gran pantalla en el año 2008 de la mano de Steve Jacobs, tiene como protagonista principal a John Malkovich.
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abortion, euthanasia, animal shelters, agoraphobia, Domestic fiction, Farm life, Farm life in fiction, Fathers and daughters, Fathers and daughters in fiction, Fiction, Fiction in Spanish, Man Booker Prize Winner, Political correctness, Political correctness in fiction, Politics and government, South Africa in fiction, Teacher-student relationships, Teacher-student relationships in fiction, Veterinarians, Veterinarians in fiction, award:man_booker_prize=1999, rape, Large type books, South africa, fiction, Fiction (fictional works by one author), Veterinarians, fiction, Fathers and daughters, fiction, Chang pian xiao shuo, Fiction, general, Fiction, psychological, Powieść południowo-afrykańska w języku angielskim, Tłumaczenia polskie, English literaturePeople
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At fifty-two, Professor David Lurie is divorced, filled with desire, but lacking in passion. An affair with one of his students leaves him jobless, shunned by his friends, and ridiculed by his ex-wife. He retreats to his daughter Lucy's isolated smallholding, where a brief visit becomes an extended stay as he tries to find meaning from the one remaining relationship. David attempts to relate to Lucy and to a society with new racial complexities are disrupted by an afternoon of violence that shakes all of his beliefs and threatens to destroy his daughter. In this wry, visceral, yet strangely tender novel, Coetzee once again tells "truths [that] cut to the bone" (The New York Times Book Review).
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