Michael's Reviews > Disgrace

This book is like a smooth thin stiletto that's already pierced your gut before you realize what's going on. The prose is economical and precise, the humor black, the outlook bleak, and yet there's an undeniable passion and rage at its still core: a bewilderment at the world and what we've become, what we've done to places like South Africa and the creatures in it, and the many flaws of the human characters whose consequences spill everywhere. There are no tidy resolutions here, and yet it's quite a journey.