Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee is a grim book that focuses on the darker side of life with themes about the powerful and powerless. Published in 1999, it won the Booker Prize and the author was also awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003, four years after its publication.  A 2006 poll of “literary luminaries” by The Observer newspaper  named the book as the “greatest novel ...

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