In the Heart of the Country: A Novel - Softcover

Coetzee, J. M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140062289 ISBN 13: 9780140062281

Publisher: Penguin, 1983

Synopsis

A story told in prose as feverishly rich as William Faulkner's, In the Heart of the Country is a work of irresistable power.

J.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018.

On a remote farm in South Africa, the protagonist of J. M. Coetzee's fierce and passionate novel watches the life from which she has been excluded. Ignored by her callous father, scorned and feared by his servants, she is a bitterly intelligent woman whose outward meekness disguises a desperate resolve not to become "one of the forgotten ones of history." When her father takes an African mistress, that resolve precipitates an act of vengeance that suggests a chemical reaction between the colonizer and the colonized--and between European yearnings and the vastness and solitude of Africa. With vast assurance and an unerring eye, J. M. Coetzee has turned the family romance into a mirror of the colonial experience.

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Review:

"A realistic fable, at once stark, exciting, and economical." --The New York Times Book Review

Book Description:

KEY POINTS: * Coetzee's first book published in Britain (1977) * Winner of the premier South African literary award, the CNA prize. * Rights recently reverted from Penguin. Core backlist title together with waiting for the Barbarians. * Filmed as Dust with Trevor Howard and Jane Birkin. * 'Its unflinching sense of loss, its claustrophobic acknowledgement of master and slave and its subtle prose style, make it an extraordinary achievement' - Guardian.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0140062289
• ISBN 13: 9780140062281
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144