In the Heart of the Country

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. 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. Zusammenfassung 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. 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.

Product details

• Authors: J. M. Coetzee, Jean M. Coetzee
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.09.2004
• EAN: 9780099465942
• ISBN: 978-0-09-946594-2
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 12 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Südafrikanische SchriftstellerInnen: Werke (div.), FICTION / Historical / General, Historical fiction, Narrative theme: Interior life, Republic of South Africa, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950