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Violence
Some
Farm attack; rape depicted
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
A lot
Professor-student affair; rape of daughter depicted
Substance Use
Barely any
Drinking
Emotional Intensity
A lot
Post-apartheid guilt, power, and the impossibility of redemption
What this book is about
Coetzee's 1999 Booker Prize novel follows David Lurie after his dismissal for an affair with a student. His daughter Lucy is raped by intruders on their rural farm. Features rape (depicted seriously, not gratuitously), violence, and the moral complexity of post-apartheid South Africa. Adults only.
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Rape depicted
Professor-student affair
Farm violence
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