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Shame by John M. Kutzi is a novel that is hard to forget. The disturbing story of the three-member gang rape of the daughter of disgraced professor and writer David Lurie remains deeply etched in the reader's memory, almost like a physical wound. This masterful account of private and public shame and remorse, presented through the spiritual and physical journey of the controversial protagonist David Lurie, is both political and intimate. This exceptional, multifaceted, complex, stylistically and linguistically impeccable literary work was the winner of the Booker Prize in 1999. Kutzi thus became the first writer to win this prize twice, considering that in 1983 he was awarded it for the novel The Life and Times of Michael K. Following this success, Kutzi also received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003.