In the Heart of the Country
by:
J.M. Coetzee (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780869750773 (0869750771)
Publish date: 1978
Publisher: Raven Press (South Africa)
Pages no: 138
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Africa,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
Contemporary,
Nobel Prize,
African Literature,
Post Colonial
The first-person narrator of this book is Magda, the daughter of an Afrikaner sheep farmer on a remote ranch in the South African veldt. Magda has grown up alone with her stern, patriarchal father and the servants. She is a bitter old maid, ignored and disregarded. By page ten, you figure out that M...
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