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1) Disgrace
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Set in post-apartheid Cape Town, Professor David Laurie attempts to relate to his daughter, Lucy, and to a society with new racial complexities. But that is disrupted by an afternoon of violence that changes him and his daughter in ways he could never have foreseen.
Author
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
1984.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In South Africa, whose civil administration is collapsing under the pressure of years of civil strife, an obscure young gardener named Michael K decides to take his mother on a long march away from the guns towards a new life in the abandoned countryside. Everywhere he goes however, the war follows him. Tracked down and locked up as a collaborator with the rural guerrillas, he embarks on a fast that angers, baffles, and finally awes his captors. The...
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