In the Heart of the Country by Coetzee, J. M.

In the Heart of the Country (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780140062281)

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In the Heart of the Country by Coetzee, J. M.

In the Heart of the Country

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In the Heart of the Country by Coetzee, J. M.

In the Heart of the Country

$22.00
Format: Paperback
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A story told in prose as feverishly rich as William Faulkner's, In the Heart of the Country is a work of irresistable power.

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

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



Author: J. M. Coetzee
ISBN-10: 0140062289
ISBN-13: 9780140062281
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 10/28/1982
Pages: 139
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.27lbs
Size: 7.72h x 5.10w x 0.42d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.4
Point Value: 9
Interest Level: Upper Grade
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By J. M. Coetzee
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Born in Cape Town, South Africa, on February 9, 1940, John Michael Coetzee studied first at Cape Town and later at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned a Ph.D. degree in literature. In 1972 he returned to South Africa and joined the faculty of the University of Cape Town. His works of fiction include Dusklands, Waiting for the Barbarians, which won South Africa's highest literary honor, the Central News Agency Literary Award, and the Life and Times of Michael K., for which Coetzee was awarded his first Booker Prize in 1983. He has also published a memoir, Boyhood: Scenes From a Provincial Life, and several essays collections. He has won many other literary prizes including the Lannan Award for Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize and The Irish Times International Fiction Prize. In 1999 he again won Britain's prestigious Booker Prize for Disgrace, becoming the first author to win the award twice in its 31-year history. In 2003, Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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