In the Heart of the Country by J.M. Coetzee It is based on the

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

But Noah has a secret

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Shadowy figures were following him through the streets of London

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In the Heart of the Country by J.M. Coetzee It is based on theStifled 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