In the Heart of the Country
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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."
FictionpostcolonialFiction, generalSouth africa, fictionFathers and daughtersMan-woman relationshipsFarm lifeEnglish literatureFiction, historical, generalFathers and daughters, fiction