Lacuna
Regular price
€18.50
A01=Fiona Snyckers
adult fiction
apartheid
Author_Fiona Snyckers
Category=FBA
coetzee
disgrace
eq_bestseller
eq_fiction
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_modern-contemporary
eq_nobargain
feminist
fiction for women
lit fic
literary fiction
nobel prize
rape tale
south africa
violence
Product details
- ISBN 9781787703742
- Dimensions: 135 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 19 May 2022
- Publisher: Europa Editions (UK) Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
A feminist response to Coetzee’s masterwork Disgrace, and the moving story of a woman trying to put her life back together
Lucie Lurie is the victim of an act of terrible sexual violence, a gang rape at her father’s farmhouse in the Western Cape. In the grip of debilitating PTSD, she becomes obsessed with JM Coetzee, author of the celebrated Disgrace, a novel based on the attack she suffered.
Withdrawn and fearful of crowds, Lucy nonetheless makes occasional forays into the world of men in her search for Coetzee himself. She means to confront him. The character in his novel is passive and almost entirely lacking agency. The real Lucy means to right the record, for she is the lacuna that Coetzee left in his novel the missing piece of the puzzle. She plans to put herself back in the story, to assert her agency and identity. For Lucy Lurie will be no man’s lacuna.
“You are concerned for my sake, which I appreciate, you think you understand, but finally you don’t. Because you can’t.”
LUCY LAURIE IN COETZEE'S DISGRACE
Fiona Snyckers is the author of several YA. novels and the thriller, Now Following You. She is a regular contributor to The Times, The Sunday Times, and the Guardian’s Thought Leader website. She lives in Johannesburg.
