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Literature & Fiction

In the Heart of the Country: A Novel

In the Heart of the Country: A Novel

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

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

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 colonizedâ€”and between European yearnings and the vastness and solitude of Africa.Â With vast assurance and an unerring eye, J. M. Coetzee has turned the family romance into a mirror of the colonial experience.

Country	USA
Brand	Penguin
Manufacturer	Penguin Publishing Group
Binding	Paperback
PartNumber	140062289
Color	Purple
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Height	7.71652
Length	5.1181
Weight	0.31305641204
Width	0.43307
ReleaseDate	1982-10-28
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