Monday, June 9, 2008

Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee


I read this book over our anniversary weekend, which was not a mood very well adapted to a book of this type, but it was incredibly well written and I guess you could say it makes you appreciate the strengths in your own relationships.

Winner of the 1999 Booker Prize, along w the first of this Nobel-winner's works I have read, it made a powerful impression upon me (no surprise, as I picked it up in London under a display marked "books that will change your life").

Extremely well-crafted and well-written, this story was compact and hard-hitting, talking about both disgrace and true human grace as well - and various definitions and incarnations we might find in that.

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