Comment

Community comment are the opinions of contributing users. These comment do not represent the opinions of West Vancouver Memorial Library.
Dec 06, 2014WVMLStaffPicks rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Unprecedented second time winner of the Booker Prize—Coetzee describes the fall from grace of Cape Town Lothario, David Lurie, and his self-imposed exile on a remote farmstead owned by his daughter, Lucy. The improved nature of his relationship with Lucy is devastated by a brutal attack on the farm. Here is the dawning of the new South Africa with all its pain, guilt, fear and violence.