Another recent novel features former professor David Lurie and his daughter Lucy being attacked by three black men.  
Foe is a rewrite of Robinson Crusoe, while the collection Dusklands contains "The Vietnam Project," and focuses on the recurring theme of war. Colonel Joll stirs up fears of a native "threat," thus disrupting the equanimity of a town previously ruled peacefully by the Magistrate in his allegorical Waiting for the Barbarians. Another recent novel features former professor David Lurie and his daughter Lucy being attacked by three black men.  The racial problems of his homeland are a recurring theme in the fiction of, FTP, what South African author of Disgrace and The Life and Times of Michael K?
Foe is a rewrite of Robinson Crusoe, while the collection Dusklands contains "The Vietnam Project," and focuses on the recurring theme of war.
J.M. Coetzee (accept before "novel": Disgrace)