Critical Reception
Upon release, the book was generally well-received among the British press.[4] According to The Guardian from a clipped part of them from Newspapers, from British press, they made an assessment of an average rating of 7.3 (out of 10) based on reviews from multiple British newspapers.[4] According to Adam Mars-Jones, writing in The Guardian, "Any novel set in post-apartheid South Africa is fated to be read as a political portrait, but the fascination of Disgrace is the way it both encourages and contests such a reading by holding extreme alternatives in tension. Salvation, ruin."[5] On BookBrowse, a site that aggregates book reviews such as media reviews, the book received a from "Critics' Opinion".[6] The book also, based on critics reviews on BookBrowse, ranged from "" to a "".[6] Globally, the work was received very well with Complete Review saying on the consensus "Very impressed.".[7]
Awards and Lists
The book continued to receive acclaim among many critics lists after and during its time of release. According to The Greatest Books, a site that aggregates book lists, it is the "The 220th greatest book of all time".[8] A 2006 poll of "literary luminaries" by The Observer newspaper named the work as the "greatest novel of the last 25 years" of British, Irish or Commonwealth origin in years between 1980 and 2005.[9] On 5 November 2019 BBC News listed Disgrace on its list of the 100 most influential novels.[10]
