"A slim novel with a bleak powerful story to tell ... Coetzee writes with a cool, calm lucidity that fends off despair, and his characters find a kind of peace in acceptance, if not hope."
--- Newsweek, November 15, 1999
"J.M. Coetzee's new novel "Disgrace," which last week won the South Afrian writer his second Booker Prize is an absolute page-turner. It is also profound, rich and remarkable ... is destined to be a classic."
--- New York Post, November, 7 1999
"A revelatory, must--read portrayal of racial fortunes reversed."
--- USA Today
"A subtly brilliant commentary on the nature and balance of power in his homeland... by a writer at the top of his form."
--- Time
"'Disgrace' is a relentlessly bleak novel."
--- The Boston Sunday Globe, November 14, 1999