For a man of his age, fifty-two, divorced, he has, to his mind, solved the problem of sex rather well.
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After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressure to repent publicly, he resigns and retreats to his daughter Lucy's isolated smallholding.
For a time, his daughter's influence and the natural rhythms of the farm promise to harmonise his discordant life. But the balance of power in the country is shifting. He and Lucy become victims of a savage and disturbing attack which brings into relief all the faultlines in their relationship.
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abortion, euthanasia, animal shelters, agoraphobia, Domestic fiction, Farm life, Farm life in fiction, Fathers and daughters, Fathers and daughters in fiction, Fiction, Fiction in Spanish, Man Booker Prize Winner, Political correctness, Political correctness in fiction, Politics and government, South Africa in fiction, Teacher-student relationships, Teacher-student relationships in fiction, Veterinarians, Veterinarians in fiction, award:man_booker_prize=1999, rape, Large type books, South africa, fiction, Fiction (fictional works by one author), Veterinarians, fiction, Fathers and daughters, fiction, Chang pian xiao shuo, Fiction, general, Fiction, psychological, Powieść południowo-afrykańska w języku angielskim, Tłumaczenia polskie, English literaturePeople
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At fifty-two, Professor David Lurie is divorced, filled with desire, but lacking in passion. An affair with one of his students leaves him jobless, shunned by his friends, and ridiculed by his ex-wife. He retreats to his daughter Lucy's isolated smallholding, where a brief visit becomes an extended stay as he tries to find meaning from the one remaining relationship. David attempts to relate to Lucy and to a society with new racial complexities are disrupted by an afternoon of violence that shakes all of his beliefs and threatens to destroy his daughter. In this wry, visceral, yet strangely tender novel, Coetzee once again tells "truths [that] cut to the bone" (The New York Times Book Review).
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