In the heart of the country
Stifled by the torpor of colonial South Africa, and trapped in a web of reciprocal oppression, a lonely sheep farmer seeks comfort in the arms of a black concubine. But when his embittered spinster daughter Magda feels shamed, this lurch across the racial divide marks the end of a tenuous feudal pea...
| Main Author: | Coetzee, J. M., 1940- |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York, N.Y. :
Penguin Books,
1982, c1977.
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| Summary: |
Stifled by the torpor of colonial South Africa, and trapped in a web of reciprocal oppression, a lonely sheep farmer seeks comfort in the arms of a black concubine. But when his embittered spinster daughter Magda feels shamed, this lurch across the racial divide marks the end of a tenuous feudal peace. As she dreams madly of bloody revenge, Magda's consciousnes starts to drift and the line between fact and the workings of her excited imagination becomes blurred. What follows is the fable of a woman's passionate, obsessed and violent response to an Africa that will not heed her. --From Amazon.com. |
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| Item Description: |
Originally published as: In the heart of the country. London : Secker & Warburg, 1977. Reprint. Originally published: From the heart of the country. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Harper & Row, c1977. |
| Physical Description: |
138 p. ; 20 cm. |
| ISBN: |
0140062289 (pbk.) 9780140062281 (pbk.) |
| Author Notes: |
Another book, Boyhood, loosely chronicles an unhappy time in Coetzee's childhood when his family moved from Cape Town to the more remote and unenlightened city of Worcester. Other Coetzee novels are In the Heart of the Country and Waiting for the Barbarians. Coetzee's critical works include White Writing and Giving Offense: Essays on Censorship. Coetzee is a two-time recipient of the Booker Prize and in 2003, he won the Nobel Literature Award. (Bowker Author Biography) |