In the Heart of the Country by Jm Coetzee
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. As she dreams madly of bloody revenge, Magda's consciousness starts to drift and the line between fact and the workings of her excited imagination becomes blurred.
A powerful study of lust, degradation and fantasy * Observer *
It says something about the loneliness, about the craving for love, about the relation between master and slave and between white and black, and about man's earthly anguish and longing for salvation - in a way you do not easily escape from once it has gripped you -- Andre Brink
The writing and mood are a remarkable piece of sustained intensity.. One false word could have ruined this short tour de force completely. It never does * Daily Telegraph *
An intellectual lyric which sings the absence of history, the electric lull before history breaks... As a piece of cultural psychoanalysis and diagnosis, it's glitteringly precise -- Tom Paulin
It says something about the loneliness, about the craving for love, about the relation between master and slave and between white and black, and about man's earthly anguish and longing for salvation - in a way you do not easily escape from once it has gripped you -- Andre Brink
The writing and mood are a remarkable piece of sustained intensity.. One false word could have ruined this short tour de force completely. It never does * Daily Telegraph *
An intellectual lyric which sings the absence of history, the electric lull before history breaks... As a piece of cultural psychoanalysis and diagnosis, it's glitteringly precise -- Tom Paulin
J.M. Coetzee’s work includes Waiting for the Barbarians, Life & Times of Michael K, Boyhood, Youth, Disgrace, Summertime, The Childhood of Jesus, The Schooldays of Jesus and The Death of Jesus. He was the first author to win the Booker Prize twice and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099465942 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099465949 |
| Title | In the Heart of the Country |
| Author | Jm Coetzee |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2004-09-02 |
| Number of pages | 176 |
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