num_pages: 204
description: 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 consciousnes sstarts 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.
language: German
title: Im Herzen des Landes
titlecomplete: Im Herzen des Landes
genres: 20th Century, Literature, Classics, Literary Fiction, Novels, Nobel Prize, South Africa, Fiction, Africa, African Literature
ratings_count: 3427
places: South Africa
publisher: FISCHER Taschenbuch