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After years of teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulisive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressure to repent publicly, he resigns and retreats to his daughter's isolated smallholding. For a time, his daughter's influence and the natural rythms of the farm promise to harmonise his discordant...Vis mer

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Disgrace

Pocket · 2000