Friday, April 30, 2010

Layer Cake or more like an Onion cos it makes your eyes water.

Disgrace by J.M.Coetzee can be read in many ways. It could just be a book about an ageing man learning to let go of his youth, it can be about a whole Country falling apart, it can be about human bondage and it can be about race relations. While it can be any or all of those things the one that it definitely is, is well written.

http://www.randomhouse.com.au/Books/Default.aspx?Page=Book&ID=9780099526834

I seem totally unable to write about this book. So all I will say is, it is beautifully written, it will reflect any number of scenarios back at you and will open your eyes to a world you want to think does not exist. It could be Australia, and if we don't look at ourselves and how we live with others here, it could be our future.


P.S I would like to know how my South African Friends feel about this book.

1 comment:

Theresa@PrincessEatsPeaSoup said...

Sounds pretty heavy. I don't think I'll be going down the road of reading this book anytime soon. But thanks for the review!