Shame

Shame Book Description JM Coetzee, in his impressive novel Shame, which won the 1999 Booker Novel Prize, tells the story of the new South Africa, a society undergoing a violent and intense transformation. In the story of fifty-two-year-old Professor Lurie, who has been married and divorced twice and is the father of a daughter, he introduces the people of a painful society experiencing both political and personal transformations and changes. Professor Lurie, who had to leave his school as a result of an affair with a female student, is ostracized by his friends and ridiculed by his ex-wife. Lurie takes refuge on his daughter Lucy's farm, the only humane relationship he has left is with his daughter. Lucy's faithless efforts to adapt to her circumstances and to a society where racial discrimination has taken on new dimensions are interrupted by a brutal attack she experiences with her daughter one afternoon. Writing with brutal honesty, JM Coetzee does not present the reader with a soft novel, he tells a harsh story, but a strong and incredibly beautiful story, both enjoyable and gloomy. Shame, which does not contain a single unnecessary word or sentence from beginning to end, captures the reader from the very first line while telling the story of Professor David Lurie's fall. Lurie's personal story and the story of South Africa are intertwined; All the rules that all Africans, white and black, follow are being reversed and distorted. Shame explores what it actually means to be human. JM Coetzee deserves to be one of the best novelists alive as he expresses the heartbreaking truths in a simple but striking style. Number of Pages: 271Print Year: 2016Language: TurkishPublisher: Can Yayınları