In the Heart of the Country by J.M. Coetzee The New York Times bestseller

The New York Times bestseller based on the Oscar nominated documentary filmIn June 1979

As she discovers

It is based on the relationship between Hoover's mother and father

certainly not an embarrassment

likened him to a dragon

In the Heart of the Country by J.M. Coetzee The New York Times bestsellerStifled 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