I like the book because the uncontrollable lust, the nonchalence, the moral abandonment, and the callousness the old Professor shows in all his sexual encounters is met with severe punishment suffered by his own daughter. Retribution indeed. Disgrace on all sides indeed. I like the thought that "what goes around comes around".( )The book is definitely thought provoking. I thank the author for granting me a view of the modern African psyche. I am now reading another one of Coetzee's books - Boyhood.