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In the Heart of the Country

โœ Scribed by J. M. Coetzee


Book ID
112174183
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Year
2017
Tongue
en-US
Weight
558 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780140062281

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โœฆ Synopsis


J.M. Coetzee's latest novel,The Schooldays of Jesus , will soon be available from Viking
A story told in prose as feverishly rich as William Faulkner's,In the Heart of the Country is a work of irresistable power

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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