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Goldsboro Books

9780436256707

In the Heart of the Country

In the Heart of the Country

Publisher Martin Secker & Warburg Limited

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  • Book Condition & Notes

    A very good first edition in a good dust jacket. Jacket is unclipped, and has wear on the spine and corners. Has a previous owner's gift inscription inside the front cover.

About the book

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. But when his embittered spinster daughter Magda feels shamed, this lurch across the racial divide marks the end of a tenuous feudal peace.

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. What follows is the fable of a woman's passionate, obsessed and violent response to an Africa that will not heed her.

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