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In The Heart Of The Country Paperback – 15 September 2004

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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.
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    15 September 2004
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    13 x 1 x 19.8 cm
  6. ISBN-10
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A powerful study of lust, degradation and fantasy ― Observer

It says something about the loneliness, about the craving for love, about the relation between master and slave and between white and black, and about man's earthly anguish and longing for salvation - in a way you do not easily escape from once it has gripped you -- Andre Brink

The writing and mood are a remarkable piece of sustained intensity... One false word could have ruined this short tour de force completely. It never does ― Daily Telegraph

An intellectual lyric which sings the absence of history, the electric lull before history breaks... As a piece of cultural psychoanalysis and diagnosis, it's glitteringly precise -- Tom Paulin

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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 2003

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0099465949
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ VINTAGE ARROW - MASS MARKET
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ 15 September 2004
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ 1st
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 176 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780099465942
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0099465942
  • Item weight ‏ : ‎ 129 g
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13 x 1 x 19.8 cm
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.8 out of 5 stars 94 ratings

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J.M. Coetzee's work includes Waiting For the Barbarians, Life & Times of Michael K, Boyhood, Youth, Disgrace and Diary of a Bad Year. He was the first author to win the Booker Prize twice and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003.

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  • Dr.Mithilesh Haldar
    5.0 out of 5 stars The Story of A Quirk Insane of Fate of A Woman
    Reviewed in India on 13 February 2019
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    Reading J.M. Coetzee is not new to me. To my rating, he is the best among all living existentialist writers. This book tells a story of an extremely lonely spinster inside a deserted and desolate farmhouse in South African veld. Her life goes through many gruesome experiences and it becomes very difficult for her to survive. The story abruptly ends. Written in first person narrative makes it more live. If you have a passion for literature, please don't miss.
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  • Luc REYNAERT
    5.0 out of 5 stars A lost life in a lost land
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 May 2010
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    The main character in this naturalistic novel is a young woman, despised by her father, who never forgave his wife for failing to bear him a son: `Wooed when we were little by our masterful fathers, we are bitter vestals, spoiled for life. The childhood rape'.

    While her father is a pure example of `the psychology of masters', she symbolizes `the heart of the country', `this bare land where people live naked beneath each other's hawkeyes, but live so under protest. Our resentment of each other, though buried in our breasts, sometimes rises to choke us.'
    The hearth of the country is `a forsaken land full of melancholic spinsters lost to history.'
    The young woman dreams of redemption by marriage to another lost soul, `though it would not astonish me if I were barren.'

    When her father chooses a new black wife, she becomes `a black widow spider and engulfs whoever passes in her venom.' Even the black servants have to leave her, for everybody lives in this part of the world outside the law, therefore live only by the law they recognize in themselves. `This part of the world is naked in every direction to the eye of the hunter; he who cannot burrow is lost.'
    But, `why do I not run away from the farm and die in civilization?' Because `I am corrupted to the bone with the beauty of this forsaken world. It takes generations of life to drive that nostalgia for country ways from the heart.'

    In this raw picture of `a district outside the law' with its violent outer and inner confrontations between father and daughter, black and white, master and slave, virginity and longing for sexual intercourse, hate and melancholy, city and countryside, lawlessness and civilization, freedom and boredom and ultimately life and death, J.M. Coetzee portrayed a doomed land dominated by people who were obsessed only by the past.

    Highly recommended to all lovers of world literature.
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  • Mark Hughes
    5.0 out of 5 stars like saving the whales or compelling the world to a ...
    Reviewed in the United States on 23 August 2014
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    There is a reason Coetzee won the Nobel Prize. His take on post-apartheid South Africa should be required reading for all sanctimonious liberals who feel called to promote politically correct values in a vacuum. Coetzee captures the horror unleashed upon South Africans of all races after the shrill college protesters have gone on to other causes, you know, like saving the whales or compelling the world to a vegan diet. He is no apologist for apartheid, but he does demonstrate that the moral universe of simple polarities that has ;produced the South Africa of today is a deeply defective solipsism.
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  • xinyi ZHENG
    4.0 out of 5 stars Achat satisfait
    Reviewed in France on 28 January 2013
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    Un très bon achat, j'ai remarqué que ce livre faisait partie d'une université de UK, bref,le contenu du livre est assez abstrait par contre,
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  • Praween Kumar Gupta
    5.0 out of 5 stars Buy it.
    Reviewed in India on 18 July 2019
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