In the Heart of the Country
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In the Heart of the Country (1977) is an English language
novel by J. M. Coetzee which delves in the complex relationships that form between the colonizer and the colonized. It takes place on an isolate farm in South Africa
told through the perspective of an unmarried white woman who takes care of her father. She clashes with him when he takes an African mistress, causing a rift that leads towards vengeance, violence and a muddling of her own relationship with the farm workers. Frequently events are re-told by her with a different outcome.
In the U.S.A. the book was published as From the Heart of the Country.
A motion picture
adaptation, Dust
, was directed by Marion Hänsel
in 1985
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English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
novel by J. M. Coetzee which delves in the complex relationships that form between the colonizer and the colonized. It takes place on an isolate farm in South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
told through the perspective of an unmarried white woman who takes care of her father. She clashes with him when he takes an African mistress, causing a rift that leads towards vengeance, violence and a muddling of her own relationship with the farm workers. Frequently events are re-told by her with a different outcome.
In the U.S.A. the book was published as From the Heart of the Country.
A motion picture
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
adaptation, Dust
Dust (1985 film)
Dust is a 1985 film directed by Marion Hänsel based on the J. M. Coetzee novel In the Heart of the Country. The film was shot in Spain and is a French-Belgian production....
, was directed by Marion Hänsel
Marion Hänsel
Marion Hänsel is a Belgian film director, producer, actress and screenwriter. Her film Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea was entered into the 1995 Cannes Film Festival.-Selected filmography:* Palaver...
in 1985
1985 in film
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