DisgraceThe irony does not escape him: that the one who comes to teach learns the keenest of lessons, while those who come to learn learn nothing. J. M. Coetzees Booker Prize winning novel Disgrace, set in post apartheid South Africa, takes us into the disquieting mind of twice divorced university teacher David Lurie as he loses his job and his honour after engaging in an ill advised affair with a susceptible student. When he retreats to his daughter's farm,