In the heart of the country J. M. Coetzee.

By:

Coetzee, J. M, 1940-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Harper & Row, c1977.Edition: 1st U.S. edDescription: 151 p. ; 22 cmISBN:

0749394250 (pbk.)
9780749394257

Uniform titles:

In the heart of the country

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PZ4.C6736 Fr 1977 PR9369.3.C58

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 sstarts 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Books	EIS Library Main Library	English Fiction Adolescent-Adult	EFA SL COE H436	Available	L0012959

London ed. has title: 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 peace. As she dreams madly of bloody revenge, Magda's consciousnes sstarts 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.

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