Disgrace

What is remarkable about Coetzee’s vision as a novelist is that it remains intensely human, rooted in common experience and replete with failure, doubt and frustration

Guardian

A searing book, and though it is often called spare, it is delightfully intricate, containing a tissue of literary allusions that are brilliantly used

John Mullan, professor of English and Booker of Bookers Judge, Guardian

Told with searing emotional and intellectual honesty, this beautifully written novel is as much a meditation on parenthood, old age and the pursuit of love and beauty as it is a snapshot of a country in turmoil

Daily Mail

Disgrace is a defining novel of our time, its apparently simple lyricism belying a grave incomprehension that threatens to sever our world in two. There is an answer, but it is very hard and painful to come to

Observer

Such dilemmas are so obviously at the heart of South African politics that the allegorical parallels are inescapable...the issues raised, such as the demands of justice versus the need for reconciliation, are timeless

The Times

A masterpiece

The Independent

Exhilarating... One of the best novelists alive

Sunday Times

Coetzee captures with appalling skill the white dilemma in South Africa

Justin Cartwright, Daily Telegraph

Disgrace explores the furthest reaches of what it means to be human; it is at the frontier of world literature

Geoff Dyer, Sunday Telegraph

A great novel by one of the finest authors writing in the English language today

Russel Celyn Jones, The Times