In The Heart Of The Country. Coetzee, J.M First Edition

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's second book. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. The South African novelist J.M. Coetzee is the recipient of the 1985 Prix Femina Étranger, the 1999 Book Prize, and the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature, described as "inarguably the most celebrated and decorated" living writer in the Anglosphere (Poplak, 2013). In the Heart of the Country is a fierce and passionate novel whose protagonist observes the life from which she has been excluded. It is "[a] realistic fable, at once stark, exciting, and economical" (The New York Times Book Review). . Basis for the 1985 motion picture, Dust, directed by Marion Hänsel.