Literary work
- romanzo
Author
Publisher
Vintage
Year
City
Londra
Language
Inglese
ISBN code
9780099289524
Pages number
220
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David Lurie, a tired and unmotivated scholar in Cape Town (South Africa), intertwines a
relationship with a student, that flows into a complaint for sexual harassment. Forced to
abandon the University, he takes refuge at his daughter’s house. Lucy lives on her own in the
countryside, in a zone torn apart by violent ethnic and cultural conflicts. Coetzee’s disemboweled English language, always “foreign”, observes the post-apartheid South Africa
cultural complexity. The novel has won the 1999 Booker Prize’s edition.