In the heart of the country

Description:

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 to not become "one of the forgotten ones of history."

subjects: Fiction,  postcolonial,  Fiction, general,  South africa, fiction,  Fathers and daughters,  Man-woman relationships,  Farm life,  English literature,  Fiction, historical, general,  Fathers and daughters, fiction

People: Magda

Places: South Africa