Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee.
After losing his university position over his conduct with a student, David Lurie retreats to his daughter's smallholding. Violence there forces both to confront a strained relationship within post-apartheid South Africa.
J. M. Coetzee makes easy moral conclusions difficult. Read it for the difference between humiliation and accountability, and for the limits of a father's claim to understand his daughter's choices.
Cover shown: Penguin paperback, ISBN 9780140296402. The purchase option below is the Penguin ebook, ISBN 9781524705466.
