Disgrace

From the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. J.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018. 

"Compulsively readable... A novel that not only works its spell but makes it impossible for us to lay it aside once we've finished reading it."—The New Yorker

At fifty-two, Professor David Lurie is divorced, filled with desire, but lacking in passion. When an …