Han’s 2007 novel The Vegetarian, her first novel to be translated ... South Africa’s Nadine Gordimer and J.M. Coetzee, Colombia’s Gabriel Garcia Marquez, France’s Jean-Paul Sartre, Germany ...

Fraught and weighty, the term leaves a stain. It’s also the title of the South African author J.M. Coetzee’s eighth and perhaps most significant novel. My most lasting memory of “Disgrace ...