In the Heart of the Country Condition:Well Read Eleven writers from the Philippines

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In the Heart of the Country Condition:Well Read Eleven writers from the PhilippinesOn 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 not to become "one of the forgotten ones of history." When her father takes an African mistress, that resolve precipitates an act of vengeance that