Coetzee’s Disgrace Singled Out for Honor
Following a New York Times poll that named Toni Morrison’s Beloved the greatest American novel of the last 25 years, the UK’s Observer - cavilling about US literary isolationism - has played copycat. The paper’s survey of Commonwealth literature of the past quarter-century, released over the weekend, places JM Coetzee’s Disgrace
in pole position.
- The Best Commonwealth Novel from 1980 to 2005 (UK Observer).
I personally disagree with both choices - though each book would likely make respective top tens - but, for some reason, my opinion wasn’t solicited.





October 9th, 2006 at 10:03 pm
And so one is left wondering, “What books would you nominate, respectively?”