IN THE HEART OF THE COUNTRY

172pp., paperback, Reprint, London,  (1977) 2014

A lonely sheep farmer seeks comfort in the arms of a black concubine.

"It says something about the loneliness, about the craving for love, about the relation between master and slave and between white and black, and about man's earthly anguish and longing for salvation - in a way you do not easily escape from once it has gripped you" Andre Brink

"An intellectual lyric which sings the absence of history, the electric lull before history breaks ... As a piece of cultural psychoanalysis and diagnosis, it's glitteringly precise" Tom Paulin

J.M. Coetzee’s work includes Foe, Life & Times of Michael K, Boyhood, Youth, Disgrace, Summertime and the Jesus Trilogy. He was the first author to win the Booker Prize twice and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003.