Full name: In the Heart of the Country: A Novel

Author: J. M. Coetzee Year: 1976 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Classic Culture: Africa Purchase/reserch links: Barns&Noble Amazon Google Books Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780140062281 9780099465942 0140062289 0099465949

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 consciousness 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. Similar books: Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee Waiting for the Barbarians by J. M. Coetzee Age of Iron by J. M. Coetzee Dusklands by J. M. Coetzee The Master of Petersburg by J. M. Coetzee The Wall of the Plague by Andre Brink The Late Bourgeois World by Nadine Gordimer Burger's Daughter by Nadine Gordimer The House Gun by Nadine Gordimer Slow Man by J. M. Coetzee July's People by Nadine Gordimer Youth by J. M. Coetzee The Schooldays of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee Ties of Blood by Gillian Slovo The Childhood Of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee Life & Times of Michael K by J. M. Coetzee Elizabeth Costello by J. M. Coetzee Roots by Alex Haley Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul