"Disgrace is not a hard or obscure book
–it is, among other things, compulsively readable
–but what it may well be is an authentically spiritual document, a lament for the soul of a disgraced century."
–The New Yorker"A subtly brilliant commentary on the nature and balance of power in his homeland.... Disgrace is a mini-opera without music by a writer at the top of his form."–Time
"Mr. Coetzee, in prose lean yet simmering with feeling, has indeed achieved a lasting work: a novel as haunting and powerful as Albert Camus's The Stranger."
–The Wall Street Journal"A tough, sad, stunning novel."–Baltimore Sun
