In the Heart of the Country

ISBN-13: 9780099465942 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 176 str.

J. M. Coetzee

Opis

Stifling in the torpor of colonial South Africa, 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.

Recenzje

A powerful study of lust, degradation and fantasy Observer

O autorze

J.M. Coetzee's work includes Waiting for the Barbarians, Life & Times of Michael K, Boyhood, Youth, Disgrace, Summertime, The Childhood of Jesus and, most recently, The Schooldays of Jesus. He was the first author to win the Booker Prize twice and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003.