From the Heart of the Country

The debut novel of Nobel Prize-winner J. M. Coetzee, From the Heart of the Country is a stark, lyrical meditation on isolation, madness, and the brutal hierarchies of colonial South Africa. Told through the fragmented diary entries of Magda, a solitary woman on a remote Karoo farm, the novel blurs the boundaries between reality and delusion, power and powerlessness. With its spare prose and psychological intensity, this haunting early work introduces many of the themes-violence, voice, and moral ambiguity-that would define Coetzee's later fiction. A bold and unsettling first book from one of literature's most rigorous moral visionaries. Mild bumping lower corners, else fine in very good or better, lightly edge worn dust jacket with a few spots of soiling lower jacket verso, in mylar cover. . Publisher's quarter brown cloth, red boards, in Guy Fleming dust jacket ($7.95).