South African Nobel laureate (2003), J.M. Coetzee's Pulitzer and Booker award-winning novel Disgrace (1999) is a classic narrative about the stark reality in South Africa owing to the legacy of Apartheid.It is a bleak tale of human and animal misery in post-apartheid era.It explores the diverse issues related to racial paranoia, white guilt, black vengeance and changed political dynamics.Set in post-apartheid times, this eloquent tale recreates the troubled days and people through the downfall of a middle aged Caucasian professor named David Lurie. He is the titular 'disgraced' man whose existential struggle and predicament forms the core of this story.The novel thus elucidates with ruthless honesty how the relations between the whites and the blacks, the oppressor and the oppressed ,men and women are poisoned by colonial rule and history.David's fall from 'grace into disgrace' described so dexterously reminds Milton's Paradise Lost with its analogous alteration of the fallen angel 'Lucifer' to depths of hell